New York in the spring -- Metropolitan Hospital -- Jones Beach -- East Harlem -- A matter of life and death -- The Odessa steps -- Evidence -- Mrs. Romanov -- Victor Kamenev -- Witness -- Progress -- Wreck on Jones Beach -- A message from Mossolov -- Memories -- Closing the net -- Face to face.

Violent crime suddenly becomes personal for New York private investigator, Nathan Marley. A relative of Stella Delgado, Marley's assistant, is arrested for a brutal murder, and unidentified bodies are washed up on a beach. Marley's search for the truth takes him to the Russian American community where he finds a wall of silence. Behind the wall, there is trade in illegal immigration and a lot of dirty money.