New York homicide detective James D'Angelo discovers the connection between murders which seem ordinary and unrelated. Motive of those incidents are related with hate, race, sexual orientation, xenophobia and extremism. They all happened in haunted places at different periods of time. Investigation drags him into darkest corners of human nature. Haunted places -just like scarecrows- hide a bigger truth, beyond police work. The detective find himself as 'a crow' and figures out haunted places, hate, extreme thoughts and phobias are as scarecrows. Fear motivates people's acts, we're like crows. But who put these 'scarecrows / scare-humans' to our lives?

In the City of Angels, six eccentric strangers cross paths after near-death experiences, interweaving the journey of love, death, and the human spirit.