Seventeen-year-old Eve has recently arrived in New York City from a religious colony in the heartland, hoping to find herself amid the lights and noise and sea of anonymous faces that make up Manhattan. Now she works in a dingy after-hours bar in Times Square. After her shift ends, Eve roams the streets.

One night she witnesses what may be a murder. In the shadows of a building, a woman struggles with a man, then leaves him bleeding on the pavement. As Eve attempts to understand what she actually saw, she becomes involved with an up-and-coming artist; meets a peculiar, fatherlike detective; and contemplates a marriage proposal. Everyone seems to want something from Eve. Now if only she can figure out what, exactly, she has within her to give.