Days before the New Millennium, a jailed informant calls the NYPD with a cryptic tip about a murder, sending detectives on a hunt through dozens of New York's high-rise buildings, in search of a crime scene - and a body.

Roger Brooks, popular Maitre D at one of the oldest restaurants in New York, is found slain in his apartment on the city's famous "Restaurant Row". Detectives discover a hidden side to the victim, and the chilling possibility of other victims.