Charles Higgler, a hardened New York native, is handed a guitar stolen from legendary Rock Band the Neapolitans. After selling the guitar he is brought into the employ of the Neapolitan bassist: Kate Morgan. Pursuing the reward she is offering for the recovery of the rest of the band's equipment, Charles falls into a world of deceit and double-crosses, chasing the cold trail of a decade old theft through a city that seems to be changing by the second, growing darker and more dangerous all around him. When a sexy counter girl he becomes involved with is murdered, Charles know he has to find a way out before he meets the same fate.