Melbourne. Caught in the vicious grip of illegal tobacco and the criminal elements that will stop at nothing to control it. A ruthless tobacco cartel from Casablanca has set up a distribution network stretching from Port Botany to the remote wilderness of the Wonnangatta Valley. They are muscling their way into the suburbs, and they are not the only ones. Corrupt police, some very senior, are running their own illegal tobacco operation in direct competition with the cartel. The confrontation between these two groups is brutal, and in most cases, deadly. Private Investigator Nick Jarratt is drawn into this violent underworld when a beautiful woman hires him to follow her husband. What begins as a routine domestic case pulls Nick headlong into Melbourne's treacherous criminal landscape, where he is threatened, kidnapped, and left staring down the barrel of a gun with no way out. Nothing, it seems, can stop this lawless enterprise from digging its lethal talons into every part of the city's exposed underbelly.