1976. Foggy Moscowitz has decided to pay his hometown of New York a visit and soon bumps into his old friend, Sammy 'Two Shoes' Cohen. Sammy wants a favor - Emory Brewster, an actor in an all-female production of Hamlet, is sending threatening notes to Sammy's girlfriend and the play's stage manager, Phoebe Peabody, and Sammy asks Foggy to speak to her. But before he has a chance, Emory is brutally murdered backstage and Phoebe is arrested. The other actors all despised Emory, but as Foggy strives to prove Phoebe's innocence, Sammy stuns him with an astonishing revelation. Is he telling the truth, or is there more to the story?

Foggy is reluctantly pulled back into New York's criminal underworld as he uncovers more about Emory Brewster. Can he stay alive long enough to catch her killer?