When Jim Bent leaves London's Metropolitan Police force to embark on a career as a Private Detective, he never realized that Hell would soon come knocking. Bent's goal was to help find lost husbands and wives and to, perhaps, catch the occasional discreet love affair. When he sets up shop in the seediest patch of town, that he knows too well, he is drawn into the world of pimps, the girls who work for them, and the sadistic minded brutes they employ. When his first client wants him to find her missing husband, he is shocked to find the man hanging in his own garage. Jim's dreams of a quiet, less dramatic life, take a sudden turn, and he is thrust into a nightmare of violence and death.