Detective Sergeant Philip Cato Kwong is light on sleep but high on happiness with his new wife Sharon Wang and their baby girl. But contentment is not compatible with life in the Job, and soon a series of murders of Fremantles homeless people gets in the way of Catos newfound bliss. As New WAve journalist Norman Lip flirts online with the killer, it becomes apparent that these murders are personal - every death is bringing the killer one step closer to Cato.