A nameless detective (Duane Sharp) investigates a murder in a Buddhist temple, but soon finds that his logical crime-solving expertise is more of a hindrance than a help in the Zen world, where intuition and imagination rule. As he delves more deeply into the case, the detective -- who's also mourning his wife's recent death -- extracts frustratingly elusive answers from a secretive monk, a bald woman and an enigmatic Zen master.