When a mentally disturbed homeless man, charged with murdering a teenage boy under a Manhattan bridge, refuses to speak, can a veteran attorney who has battled his own demons save him? Facing seemingly overwhelming odds, the lawyer slowly begins to uncover the homeless man’s secrets. But just when he thinks he’s unraveled the mystery of what happened under the bridge, the case takes a surprising turn, forcing him to rethink everything. Then with time running out and the homeless man’s future hanging in the balance, the lawyer comes to a startling realization that could be the key to the case. But could he put it all together and prove the homeless man’s innocence?
The story is told by the tough-talking embattled lawyer and is set in lower Manhattan’s Chinatown and surrounding neighborhoods against a backdrop of, drug dealing gangs, life in the projects and the criminal courts of New York City.