Detective Persy Jonas’ disciplinary hearing has been dropped, amidst many unanswered questions lingering from her last case. Not least the whereabouts of suspected killer Fred Splinters, and the identity of his so-called wife ‘Natasha’.

Keen to be rid of Persy, her former station commander delivers an ultimatum:  move to the notoriously dysfunctional Ocean View Police Station, or resign.

Persy has no desire to return to the gangster-ridden community where she grew up, or the dead end station that services it, and agrees to resign. But then she receives news that makes her do an immediate about turn and agree to the move: Fred Splinters has been found murdered in Ocean View. But it’s not Fred’s killer that Persy is eager to track down. It’s the mysterious Natasha Splinters, who may or may not be Gloria Cupido, the mother who abandoned her more than twenty years ago.