When a California businessman shows up at the San Francisco police station to report a murder, the police captain asks him who was murdered. His reply: 'I was.' So begins the tale of a man who is poisoned at a dark jazz club and, with only hours left to live, is determined to find out who poisoned him and why.

When a man's fianceé is shot dead on the couple's wedding day by a rejected lover who was aiming for him, was left to raise his fianceés niece who eventually falls in love with the murderer's son. The past sweeps back to haunt the present.