Schotty is cleaning up a crime scene when a woman walks in. Seeing a stranger in the apartment and a bathroom splattered with blood, she assume Schotty is some sort of deranged serial killer.

Bernhard Benning is a novelist who Schotty finds oddly undisturbed by his Aunt's tragic death. Struggling with writer's block, Benning insists Schotty be unreasonably quiet while cleaning up the death scene.

It's Schotty's job to clean up a crime scene where a burglar accidentally fell and was killed while trying to rob an elderly lady in her home. As he cleans up the mess, Schotty discovers there may be more to this "cut and dried" case than meets the eye and ends up facing a moral dilemma as he has to decide between a difficult truth and a profitable lie.