1923, Virginia. This is the prohibition era, when all alcohol was forbidden and a black market in bootleg booze was thriving. Much of society quietly ignores this ban, either able to pay the exorbitant costs or taking risks on counterfeit 'alcohol'. Organised crime boomed as they ran illegal speak easys serving cocktails, heavily disguised as non alcoholic. In this fraught and chaotic time, the unusual death of a Private Investigator is overlooked at first... When the police do not release the autopsy results to his widow, however, several of his old acquaintances become suspicious...