Hannah, the seventeen-year-old bride-to-be of an older businessman, stands accused of murdering a young lover at a ritual bathhouse. Appeals lawyer Emily and private eye Sid team together to prove her innocence. But when Hannah decides to take over her own case, the girl falls into the hands of a criminal gang. Emily, searching to free her, finds herself pitted against evil before she stumbles into a final and terrible truth, almost too late to save herself and Hannah.