A former Marine suffering from PTSD kills a teenage boy on the beach during a paranoid episode, forcing his childhood best friend and military buddy to come try to bring him in—dead or alive.

A precocious ten-year-old orphan believes himself to be an incarnation of Sherlock Holmes and his life to be in danger. His aunt takes him to see a psychologist, but is the boy truly deluded or could he be onto something diabolical and real?