Ever since getting off a prestigious cable television series, Frank Cooper has been coasting through life distracting himself with women, booze and blow, while auditioning to play stereotypical gang members and drug dealers. But the minute he meets Mali Waters, a sports agent living for the present, his whole world changes.
Tyler, an independent journalist, pieces together a series of cryptic messages hidden in plain sight around his town that point to a deadly ring involved in kidnapping, murder, and the distribution of snuff films. Meanwhile, local homicide detectives race against time to crack the code before the murder ring (and Tyler) go too far.