The story of Roy Cady, prejudiced, who works as a “persuader” for a mafia in New Orleans. On the day he was diagnosed with an incurable disease, he escaped a murder attempt by fleeing with a stranger, a very young prostitute, whose secrets pose a threat to their survival. Finding himself to protect the girl and a three-year-old girl, she will have to make difficult and tragic choices whose consequences will be felt even after twenty years.