The docks, where Snowtown meets the sea, is the black spot in the police's clean-up rate. Bodies are just thrown out into the bay, and the ones that wash back are usually unidentifiable. Detective Richard Fell attempts to trace one body back to its murder, to lay just one ghost among the thousands that haunt the docks to rest.

A floater turns up at the Snowtown docks, and Detective Fell is dead set on cracking the case, despite the odds being stacked heavily against him.