A skeptical Lou Norton of the Los Angeles police department investigates increasingly compelling parallels between the suspicious suicide of a teenage girl and the unsolved murder of Lou's sister.

Along the ever-changing border of gentrifying Los Angeles, seventeen-year-old Monique Darson is found dead at a condo construction site, hanging in the closet of an unfinished unit. Her new partner assumes it's a teenage suicide, but Detective Elouise "Lou" Norton isn't buying it.