Cape Town. Police captain Mat Joubert was the very best got every killer. However, this was a year ago, while working underground until his wife Lara was murdered. Mat's been around a downward spiral from the time, haunted by a past that is blurred, uncertain which role he played with at the murder of his wife. Now Mat is an outside of silhouette chainsmoker who is ambivalent regarding the crime-ridden world . Mat starts to over come the ghosts of his past. However, in order to stop the violence of his cases he has to relive the nightmare of his husband's murder.