"Renée Ballard works the night shift in Hollywood, beginning many investigations but finishing none as each morning she turns her cases over to day shift detectives. A once up-and-coming detective, she's been given this beat as punishment after filing a sexual harassment complaint against a supervisor. But one night she catches two cases she doesn't want to part with: the brutal beating of a prostitute left for dead in a parking lot and the killing...

At late-night jam sessions in LA, jazz musicians used to dedicate their shows to the greatest alto sax player in the world, Frank Morgan, but if people wanted to hear him, they had to go to San Quentin.