Tonight will be the worst night of Katrina Marino's life. This is her story. It is also the story of Katrina's neighbours, those who witnessed her ordeal, those who did nothing: the anxious Vietnam draftee; the former soldier planning suicide; the woman who thinks she's killed a child, & her husband who will risk everything for her. & others, too, whose lives are touched by the crime: the elderly teacher whose past is catching up with him; the naive blackmailer who's about to find out just what sort of people he's been threatening; & the corrupt cop who follows his own brutal law.