Los Angeles vice detectives Bill Holt and Nin have entered the gangster and drug scenes and have allied with drug kingpin Truman Rickhardt. As he tries to stop Holt, Nin narrates the events that led Holt to torture Truman's brother Sean by chaining him inside an iron box that's slowly filling with cement. Cops on the take, missing money, Holt's tempting wife Lyndel, dead police officers are implicated in the events.
