Vincent Wolfe is a homicide detective with the Toronto police. Lately he's been unable to close his cases. He keeps seeing homicides where his partner sees suicides. To Vince, the crime scenes seem staged to make it look like a victim has taken his own life. But Vince is a troubled man. The recent death of his father is forcing him to confront memories of his abusive childhood and the long-suppressed memory of the accidental death of his older brother. It's clear to Vince's partner and his lieutenant that Vince is becoming unstable, and when he starts to believe that obvious homicide scenes are linked to the perpetrator who staged the suicides, the department assigns him involuntarily to Dr. Denude, the in-house psychiatrist. Cassandra Wells is a woman in her twenties who is similarly haunted by memories of her father's abuse and his ultimate suicide. Sandy can't escape the thought that she is to blame and struggles as a consequence in her attempts at intimate relationships.