A young baggage handler is gunned down in an airport heist gone bad. Detective Joe Gregory and his partner, Anthony Ryan, sense something odd about the killing of young Johnny Boy Counihan. While the detectives interview suspects, a hoods' hangout in Queens is firebombed and another body is found in a car trunk at the airport, this one covered with artificial eyes. And a group of young Irish immigrants, linked to Johnny Boy's life, tell Ryan and Gregory a story that ranges from the curious to the darkly disturbing.