Private investigator Frank Armstrong barely scrapes by in the Los Angelesunderbelly until “the big one” hits his desk. Locate and retrievethe daughter of a drug kingpin, and he can finally afford more than theone-dollar meatloaf. Unfortunately, the job offer arrives just as the symptomsof his fatal, late-stage brain tumor intensify. Frank must find the target andkeep her safe while time collapses, family turns into foe, and the specter ofhis murdered wife resurfaces in the eyes of a mobster’s daughter.