Los Angeles, 1953. The author David L. "Dave" Brady wants to bring a missed ex-newspaperman back to Los Angeles. Therefore Dave has to travel to Mexico City. Dave gets involved with a murder case that occurred fifteen years ago. It's an obsession for Dave to solve that murder.
Career gambler Dan Milner agrees to a $50,000 deal to leave the USA for Mexico, only to find himself entangled with fellow guests at a luxurious resort and suspecting that the man who hired him may be the deported crime boss Nick Ferraro aiming to re-enter to the USA.
Organizatör Frankie Christopher, model Vicky Lynn cinayetinde polis tarafından sorguya çekilir. Kızla ilk kez garsonken tanışan Frankie, onu başarılı ve kazançlı bir kariyer içine sokmaya karar verir. Kız Frankie'yi Hollywood için terk etmenin arifesindeyken öldürülür. Frankie, Müfettiş Ed Cornell’in onu cinayetle ilişkilendirmeye kararlı olduğunu fark eder. Yardım için başvurabileceği tek kişi, kurbanın ona karşı soğuk davranan ablası Jill’dir.
Upon waking up to the news that the man she’d gone on a date with the previous night has been murdered, a young woman with only a faint memory of the night’s events begins to suspect that she murdered him while attempting to resist his advances.