Down-and-out drunk Terry Lennox has a problem: his millionaire wife is dead and he needs to get out of LA fast. So he turns to his only friend in the world: Philip Marlowe, Private Investigator. He´s willing to help a man down on his luck, but later, Lennox commits suicide in Mexico and things start to turn nasty. Marlowe finds himself drawn into a sordid crowd of adulterers and alcoholics in LA´s Idle Valley, where the rich are suffering one big suntanned hangover. Marlowe is sure Lennox didn´t kill his wife, but how many more stiffs will turn up before he gets to the truth...?