May Oster is a beautiful, pensive, somber woman in her mid twenties; a beautiful woman that discovers her boyfriends bloody scarf in her apartment following a black-out episode. This unearthed white scarfcovered in crimson drives May to attempt suicide. May is taken to a psychiatric ward and is immediately thrown into seclusion. Detective James Harding questions May about a horrific murder, which thrusts May into narrating an in-depth story about an unnamed womans involvement with unsavory characters leading to multiple murders.