When a poetry student named Mickey disappears in Sydney, Australia, her hire Jill, a lesbian private investigator, to find her. The case plunges Jill deep into Sydney's poetry scene, where she meets and falls for Diana, a poetry lecturer who also happens to be one of Jill's suspects. Jill is soon hurled into a passionate liison, and with Diana as her guide, she investigates the seamy underworld of Mickey's life, looking for clues to the murder. Blinded by passion, Jill's ethics are compromised...until her own life is in danger.