Two inebriated high-school girls, Kelly Daugherty and Anne-Marie Liscomb, are agitated after their car is towed at a party. Liscomb walks off to make a phone call for a ride, and is found dead in a dumpster days later. After tracking down the cab driver that picked up Liscomb, new information leads the detectives to a drug-addicted prostitute with an affluent past, known as "Sugar" and her partner Tito Cabassa. A war of words unfolds as the detectives pit the prostitute and pimp against each other to see who will talk first. When the case goes up for trial, ADA Connie Rubirosa appears to have an unrelenting admirer in the jury pool.