The phone rings in the middle of the night and on the other end of the line, there is the awful sounds of an attack. The couple who received the call rush to its source only to discover a horrific scene. Two teenage sisters, from Taiwan studying English for the summer have been viciously attacked in their basement apartment.

A dead woman is found in a park. When her body is identified it's learned the deceased is a recently divorced landlady of a group home for transients. The list of suspects is long; the clues police have to follow are few. And the only potential witness to the crime? A woman who remembers a car in the area the night the body was found.

One cold February morning in the dark stairwell of a Toronto apartment building, a security guard makes a grotesque discovery: the dead body of a Filipina nanny. It's clear she's been savagely murdered and raped. Police analyze the list of potential suspects - the boyfriend, the employer, serial offenders in the community.