A detective for campus security at a mid-sized university is almost inadvertently assigned the investigation of the ritualistic murder of a female student whose body was found in the university's chapel. His work eventually leads him to suspect faculty, but when he begins to reveal specifics, his superior closes the case. He continues to pursue an unauthorized investigation which endangers first career, then his personal life, and ultimately his health. Sorting through layers of overlapping interests and motives, he encounters a complex web of money, power, politics, and school loyalty that effectively conspires to conceal a perpetrator.