Synopsis:
26-year old Pepper Bibeau deals with a few unresolved personal problems while she plugs away at her new job as an insurance investigator for a Wisconsin-based company. She's ten months out of the Army after a 12-month tour of Vietnam with the Army Nurse Corps, experiencing what was referred to as "shell shock" in WWI and "combat fatigue" in WWII.  Pepper has also begun to second guess her decision to have her son raised by relatives in Hawaii; not the decision itself, made ten years ago, but the reason she desires to have him live with her now.

Pepper travels to Chicago to clear up some dubious medical claims. She's also there to check the background of a life insurance beneficiary who admits to stabbing his wife. Her questions begin to stir up trouble and a close friend is found murdered. Pepper feels responsible, but before she can clear her head about her friend's death an unprovoked attack lands her in the hospital. A homicide detective decides someone wants to put a stop to her investigations and suggests, for her safety, she return to Wisconsin.

But Pepper is determined to learn how the stabbing in Wisconsin is connected to a murder and a child's near-fatal drug overdose in Chicago. This trail of consequences leads her to one person's greed that must be exposed, before she is stopped permanently.

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