A real-time account of the events on United Flight 93, one of the planes hijacked on 9/11 that crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania when passengers foiled the terrorist plot.
Former pop-star turned con artist Simon Delancey is kidnapped by two fans of his eighties band the Venus Hunters, and blackmailed to re-form the band for one final show.
In the wake of a carnival parade the river washes a corpse onto the shore. A crime has been committed, a mystery blossoms to life, and the legend of mythical cursed diamond is tantalizingly revived.