 Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison moves to a new district and is put in charge of a vice investigation instead of homicide. But soon a homicide case impinges on her new job when a very young male prostitute is murdered in the apartment of Vera Reynolds, a female impersonator. Soon Jane is on the trail of the boy s brutal young pimp (played by David Thewlis). But her investigation is complicated by the Old Boy s Network, which is spying on her and is more concerned with preventing scandal than bringing the villain to justice.