Bobby Gold is a smooth-talking Jewish homicide detective. He is annoyed when he becoems involved in a routine investigation into the murder of an elderly Jewish woman in a black ghetto. He is more interested in a high-profile murder case that he nd his partner are on the verge of breaking. But the old woman's murder draws him into a world of anti-Semitism and Jewish terrorism, where his loyalties are blurred, and he is forced to confront his own attitudes about being Jewish.