Carter 'Cash' Thompson is no longer a cop or a private investigator. After his partner's death, Carter is drinking constantly, and in debt for gambling. Now a night manager in a seedy motel in Bondi, Carter is friends with a drug dealer and protection man, Gerry Novak. Things change when a young girl, Andrea Huston, is found murdered in her apartment. Cash feels guilty for not helping her sister Sally when she asked him. With the help...