On a sizzling summer night in the Bronx, NYPD Officer John Romero follows a lead that plunges him into the center of a deadly confrontation that critically alters his life forever. Lyndi Barrett, a registered nurse in an understaffed and underfunded nursing home plods through near impossible work conditions and daily challenges of suffering and death to carry on her mother's legacy. Weary souls. Broken dreams. Wounds that are slow to heal. Two lives thrust together in unusual circumstances, in the most unusual of places, struggle to find hope and purpose amidst despair and a tangible evil...