Absentminded, and quite a peculiar young man, James Mackleberg is not the sharpest knife in the drawer. But when he sees a young woman's corpse laying on the ground in a dark alley, he knows he is the next target of a serial killer. Terrified, James finds himself asking a rather cruel detective for help. Little do they know, they are being hunted by someone like a bloodhound hunts down their prey.