Jane Alexander's idyllic life in San Francisco is shattered when her beloved, elderly aunt is brutally murdered. But when her fiancé, Tom O'Donnell, becomes the main suspect, Jane must put aside her grief to aid the police before the chance at justice is lost forever.

A troubled teenager joins a group of rock climbers and is quickly forced into a death-defying adventure.

Johnny, a rock 'n' roll casualty, regales a woman he has just met with his one claim to fame: that he lived with German industrial musician Blixa Bargeld in Berlin in 1982. Or so he says.