Club Gouge: Chicagos edgiest night spot where a woman calling herself the Body Artist invites the audience to use her naked body as a canvas. The show attracts all kinds of people from a menacing cop to Ukrainian mobsters & Iraq war veterans. A tormented young painter comes too & the designs she creates on the Body Artist drive one of the soldiers into a violent rage. When the painter is shot the police assume the shell-shocked veteran went off the rails. But his family hires V.I. to clear his name
- & the detective discovers a chain of ugly truths stretching from Iraq to Chicagos South Side.