Detective Peter Decker from the LAPD is definitely stunned when he gets the report. Somebody offers shattered the sanctuary of the remote control yeshiva community in the California hillsides with an unimaginable criminal offense. Among the women was brutally raped as she came back in the mikvah, the bathhouse where the cleansing ritual is conducted.

The crime was called in by Rina Lazarus, and Decker is relieved to discover that she is a calm and intelligent witness. She is also the only one in the sheltered community ready to speak of this unspeakable violation. As Rina tries to steer Decker through the maze of spiritual laws both grow nearer. But before they get to the bottom of this horrendous crime, revelations come to light that are therefore shocking they threaten to arrive between the hard-nosed cop as well as the deeply religious woman with whom he is becoming irrevocably linked.