Private Investigator Joe Copp, finds himself recovering from a bout of partial amnesia after being nearly blown away with his own gun. It seems that during his lost weeks he married a woman who is now in the county morgue and the police are trying to pin her murder on widower, Joe Copp. Copp's riveting search for answers leads him to the Mammoth Lake mountain resort where, in his darkest hour, he is in a fierce battle with his own mind and with those who want to eliminate him.