Party girl Zoë Verne is a regular at Club Dis, the city's hottest sub-culture super-club. But late one evening she leaves the club distraught and upset, and is set upon by four dark figures. All she hears is a snarl… she's dead before she can scream. It seems that Detective Alex Taylor has it all, but the truth is he's losing it fast. After a string of failures his career is on a downward spiral; his fiancée is all but a stranger to him; and now he's handling the death of Zoë Verne - seemingly killed by a wild animal… but the closer he looks, the more the ground seems to fall from beneath his feet. As Alex investigates the girl's free-spirited lifestyle he finds himself faced with a dark, alternative world hidden away in the underbelly of his modern metropolis.