Leonid McGill is finding himself in an unusual pickle of trying to balance his cases with his chaotic personal life. Leonid s father is nowhere to be found, and his wife is in an uptown sanitarium trying to recover from the deep depression that led to her attempted suicide. His wife s condition has put a damper on his affair with Aura Ullman, his girlfriend. And his son, Twill, has been spending a lot of time out of the office with his own case, helping a young thief named Fortune and his girlfriend, Liza.