Boredom and uncertainty brings Jake Jacobson back to his old familiar turf in post WW II New York City. He walks away from a secure job as Chief Security Officer in an electronics company. He moves out of his nice surburban home, leaves his wife, his four year old son, and returns to his life as a private detective. Bussines is slow until a beautiful woman with money written all over her walks into his office and hires him to find her stolen diamond...