When veteran detective Danny Frater turns up at a hospitalmortuary for what he thinks is a routine ID check, he gets adevastating shock. The deceased - a young woman - turns out tobe his estranged daughter, Christina. According to thepost-mortem report, she's taken her own life. Although thepathologist, Jackie Sowden, insists that the evidence pointsoverwhelmingly toward suicide, Danny refuses to accept herfindings, and he forces Jackie to take him through herexamination step-by-step.