Sergeant Trevor Joseph has started a promising new life with Lyn Sullivan. But their developing relationship begins to disintegrate when a vagrant's gruesome murder pulls Joseph away from home and onto Jubilee Street - the skid row of a small English seaside town. When Joseph and his colleagues report to the crime scene, they find only an unrecognizable body, an empty bottle of whiskey, and the lingering scent of gasoline. With little evidence to guide it, the investigation becomes even more complicated when the victim is identified as a young lawyer who actually died two years earlier. Sergeant Joseph, enlisting the help of an old love, deciphers the connection between the body found on Jubilee Street and the dead attorney, but not before several more homeless are killed and a member of Joseph's investigation team confronts a ghost from the past.