21-year-old Sibyl Foster has been homeless for several years and has become extremely resourceful. She power-dresses and hits the hotel bars, scamming a room for the night from an unwitting male resident on the pretence that her purse has been stolen. She manages to get away with a room to herself, no strings. This works well until one night she gets awoken by the police in the early hours of the morning. Believing them to be onto her scam, she ducks out of the hotel only to discover the next day that she is wanted for questioning. The mark she d set up had been violently murdered during the night and she s the last person to have seen him. This triggers the beginning of a nightmare for Sibyl - a second murder is committed and this time there is evidence that unmistakably links her as prime suspect. As the police investigate the crime they discover that Sibyl is in fact the daughter of a prominent public figure, her mother, Mrs Foster, is at that time running for public office. They discover that Sibyl had been an inmate of a psychiatric hospital prior to breaking out and turning to the streets. The leading investigating officer, Doug, discovers more than a few skeletons in the Foster closet as he endeavours to uncover the truth did Sibyl commit the murders? Even Sibyl can t be sure