Joe Nails has a problem.
The down and out private eye experiences reoccurring dreams of a friend’s suicide, and finds it did occur, a month before his dreams began, so he investigates. But as his probe into the mystifying and smoky noir underbelly of 1958 San Francisco deepens, Nails encounters rising walls of lies and heartbreak, of amorous women he cannot bed, of an incomprehensible goon with whom he communicates best, of a powerful and bellicose balloon of a man bent on reigning over him, and of a couple paid killers longing for further bliss.
Joe Nails has a problem, all right, an entire shopping list of them, but he just may solve a few…providing the approaching .357 yearning for another victim allows it.
