At the height of a freak storm a 911 caller reports a murder at the Ambrough Arms, NYC's new high-rise sliver. Chief of Detectives Darrel Randsome, aware that his estranged daughter resides in the Ambrough Arms, hurries to reach the scene. His progress is hampered by streets awash with filthy water, the result of a month-long sanitation workers' strike, that has plugged storm sewer drains with garbage. Randsome and four Crime Scene Unit detectives find more suspects than they bargained for in the high-rise sliver. The investigation gets complicated when Randsome discovers the Ambrough is owned by mobsters, and the DA is keeping twenty-four hour surveillance on the mob boss in 7A. Criminals abound as Randsome sifts though evidence. He struggles to do his job, but worries about his daughter's safety .