When the body of an unidentified girl washes up under the docks of the Port of Lake Charles, Louisiana State Trooper Trey Angelo is called in to investigate. Then, the body of a second girl is found in a shallow grave along Contraband Bayou, and Sheriff's Detective Denise Grant is given the case. As the two detectives investigate their respective cases, they soon realize that the two murders are somehow linked. Both of the girls have come from a small town in Oklahoma, where all had worked at an out-of-the-way strip joint called Pontotoc Paul's. Trey Angelo goes undercover as the bartender at Pontotoc Paul's and soon learns is that the club is actually a front for a lucrative porn ring secretly being operated - and protected - by a group of local police officers. The cops, in turn, are backed by political forces that extend into some of the most powerful corridors in the state capitol. Sex, murder, money, and political corruption all come together along the shores of Contraband Bayou.