Off-duty police officer Laurie Franklin finds herself caught up in a strange sequence of events after a person falls in front of her train.
When she learns that a newborn baby has been abandoned at the local hospital Laurie becomes convinced that the two events must be connected, but both the train's victim and the baby remain unidentified.
As she is drawn deeper into the mystery, Laurie realises this might not be a simple case of suicide at all, but something much darker.