Half-Ute Kirby Austin flees her abusive husband Jake, taking their two children with her. Leaving the western canyons of her childhood, Kirby heads to "Music City, USA"--Nashville, Tennessee--to try and make it in the music industry. She winds up writing the Obituary column for a local newspaper instead. Trouble follows her to Nashville, however--suddenly, a serial killer is on the loose, and Kirby is the main suspect. And then, when tensions are at their highest--Jake shows up.