Melinda Trance is a rock star. For a decade, she has dominated the Canadian music scene with her strangely fascinating music and the mystique that surrounds her and her bizarre, little-known past. She is unhappy: deeply lonely despite wealth, the adoration of her audience, and the readily available consolation of casual sex. But she has a plan: a plan to reunite with Dylan Evans, the fallen rock god whose lover she was in the long ago time when she was his groupie Kristy Kaos, and whom she has continued to love and write music with in a dream world that they have created together since the disgrace and imprisonment that he suffered for loving her. In the meantime, two people are conspiring to disgrace and destroy her as well: Evans' resentful former guitarist, and Toronto's psychopathic mayor, who in his former role as a judge was the one to send Evans to jail, and who, years before that, inflicted a terrible secret trauma upon him. As this threat dawns on her, she races to accomplish the final act of revenge that would free her and her lover both.