Susan Turner, a young divorced black Registered Nurse, who is struggling to support a chronically ill four year old son, is given a brown grocery bag for safe keeping by an elderly poatient who instructs her to tell no one that she has the bag, and if he should never call for it, the contents are hers to keep. Upon returning to work the next morning, she learrns that the patient has died during the night of suspicious circumstances, and she is accused of murder.