Harold Angel (Mickey Rourke) is a private detective who takes small, safe cases. His life takes a turn when a mysterious client, Louis Cyphre (Robert De Niro), hires him to find a missing person- a person named Johnny Favorite, who has been in coma since WW-II got over. His task is to find out whether Johnny is dead or alive.

He finds out that Johnny is no longer at the hospital. He had been taken away secretly 12 years back and the doctor had been paid to maintain records in his name. Things get complicated when one by one all people he traces down get murdered. The doctor, Johnny's friend-the guitarist, Johnny's girlfriend, her father. He is now a murder suspect and struggling to cope up with what's happening around him. And his weird, spooky dreams are only adding to the problem.