It’s 1996 and Christopher Kaiser’s staggering gambling debts have finally caught up with him, just in time for his wife Elisa to announce she’s pregnant. He is convinced there could not be a worse time for them to have a child, but then he is coerced into helping aircraft enter the country illegally, supposedly for a good cause. Meanwhile, Mobile Homicide Detective Jamie Bradley is racing against the calendar to stop the Holiday Surgeon from killing again. The clues—women cut open with a scalpel on holidays and a pattern of blood left on the floor—reveal a horrifying plan. The two seemingly unrelated stories become gruesomely entangled, leaving a trail of mutilated bodies from Panama City to New Orleans.