February 1971
On the morning of the devastating Sylmar Earthquake, pop sensation Vicki La Monica is found dead in her Hollywood Hills home. Police, busy with the earthquake disaster, want to close the case quickly, calling it a drug overdose. After all, it has only been weeks since the famous drug-deaths of Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin. Vicki's father won't buy it. Chuck Donnegan is a retired LAPD homicide detective and he knows his daughter would never take drugs. He dives into the ultra-hip world of the seventies music scene and begins a citywide search for Vicki's missing boyfriend. He barges in on her friends, her manager, a rival singer, her record label, and the mysterious Japanese entertainment conglomerate about to buy them. Out of place, physically and emotionally exhausted, Chuck's public criticism of the police causes the media to focus on Chuck. They brand him
The Vigilante Dad,
follow him everywhere and train cameras on his every move. And now someone wants him dead.