When Peter-John Montana - the foremost "donkey" of the adult entertainment industry - is found murdered in his private studio suite, LAPD Detective Harry Hu is called in to pick up the pieces.
When the prime suspect captured by security cameras turns out to be the detective's own pampered baby sister, Helen, Harry must unravel the puzzle wrapped in a riddle while tangling with his own strange nightmares.
One murder leads to another, and as the major studios stand on the brink of war, Harry, still seeking to shield his family, is drawn deeper and deeper into the ultraviolence -- and into a torrid affair with porn queen Tina Childs.
As the bodies pile up, Harry's investigation takes him from the glittering high-tech streets of Sex City to the gritty realities of Mexico and beyond, in search of answers, as the lines between the real world and that of his fevered imagination begin to blur.