簡是壹位即將退休的女警探。在職業生涯就要結爸束的時候，她接了壹個失蹤女孩的案件。在與同事合作緝兇的過程中，簡的私人生活也飽受困擾，她父親的身體非常糟糕，同時簡還要試圖隱藏自己酗酒的事實。生活和工作上的麻煩，讓她壹籌莫展……

　　Tennison's promotion to Superintendent turns out to put her in charge of an investigation and search for an abducted baby. She gets more involved in it than she intended considering that she just had an abortion. However, she turns out to be the one of most cool headed of her team when the prime suspect seems to be a man who was a child molester recently released from a clinic. As people start to investigate him, emotions get in the way and terrible mistakes are made that seem beyond Supt. Tennison's ability to correct.