Directed and written by Bruce Robinson, this movie is about how being a cop in Los Angeles has destroyed John Berlin (Andy Garcia). His friend Freddy Ross (Lance Henriksen) tells him to move to Eureka, a smaller town, and regroup. His big city ways cause headaches for other cops, like John Taylor (Graham Beckel) whose promotion he takes.

Berlin finds a hand in a dumpster, one that has marks on the fingers as if it read Braille. He believes its either part of a missing girl known as Jennifer or part of that case. By working with some of his old team, he learns that in the last four years, six women — most of them blind — have either been found dead or are still missing within a 300-mile radius of San Diego. He thinks that Jennifer was seven and the eighth was Amber, the missing roommate of blind music teacher Helena Robertson (Uma Thurman).

Against all rules of being a police officer, Berlin falls in love with her. She looks like his ex and he’s obsessed by the case and still getting past all his PTSD from the things that he’s seen. After the killer attacks her, Ross accompanies Berlin on a stakeout at her dorm room. As Helena stays with Ross’ wife Margie (Kathy Baker), the killer knocks out Berlin and kills his friend with Ross’ service firearm. FBI special agent St. Anne (John Malkovich) believes that Berlin is the killer, but his questions open that last bit of knowledge that the hero of a giallo needs to see the information that he is missing. He thinks Sgt. Taylor is the killer but no one believes him. Margie bails him out. She takes Helena back to her dorm as Berlin races to get there to save him. Yet Taylor catches up to the woman he’s been chasing and then realizes that it’s Margie, who kills him and gets revenge for the loss of her husband.

The director wasn’t happy with how this ended up. Robinson said, “There were four different heads of studio on that movie, they all wanted different things. The worst thing happened before we made the movie and that was having Andy García, great guy that he is, on the movie. I didn’t write it for a handsome young lead, I wrote it for a shagged out old cop like Gene Hackman or Al Pacino…he problem is the moment you see Andy García and Uma Thurman on screen together you think, “That ain’t bad. A couple of romantic leads, that’s nice.” The whole point was that he was this fucked guy; he was Rod Steiger if you like.”

García said that twenty minutes of the film had been cut before its release, including an all-night alcohol binge and more of the interrogation, which he said was the heart of the movie and made for a totally different movie.