It’s 1975, and President Ford refuses to bail out New York City, but newsman Coleridge Taylor has other worries. He needs his next scoop. He thinks he’s found it when a mugging leaves a punk rocker and a cop dead. Only the punk was a good kid, and the NYPD thinks Officer Samantha Callahan abandoned her murdered partner. Taylor falls for Samantha. A bad move. Her story has a mighty undertow, and once again Taylor is in over his head.