Sixty-year-old Sully is down on his luck and has to deal with a landlady who wants him evicted, an estranged son who is headed down the same road as Sully, a neurotic ex-wife, unreasonable girlfriend, and the ghost of his own abusive father.

When Billy Ellison, the son of Washington, D.C.s most influential African-American family, is found dead in the Potomac near a violent drug haven, reporter Sully Carter knows its time to start asking some serious questionsno matter what the consequences. With the police unable to find a lead and pressure mounting for Sully to abandon the investigation, he has a hunch that there is more to the case than a drug deal gone bad or a tale of family misfortune....