Many years ago Jimmie falls in love with Ida Durbin, but Ida is not free to love as she is a prostitute in hock to a brutal man called Kale. They plan to run away but Ida never shows. Now Jimmie's half brother Dave visits a man called Troy Bordelon, who wants to free himself of a dark secret before he dies - a bully and a sadist he has a lot to confess to - but instead he tells of a young girl, a prostitute whom he glimpsed as a kid, boodied and beaten. Dave realises he cannot let the past go. Ida's killers are still out there - so he begins his journey into the past - back to the summer of 1958 and a girl called Ida Durbin.