The Backward Path Ray Drake is a detective on a case that’s got him chasing his own tail. His little drug habit doesn’t help. With his pocket voice recorder, his gold badge and his works, he prowls the downtown LA night. One of his haunts is Dreamland, a hostess club where he makes small talk and inquiries with the charming, angelic Amber. Ray stakes out an old luxury motel and witnesses a murder. The femme fatale he discovers in a pool of blood leaves Ray as a prime suspect. Ray answers to a corrupt Police Commissioner, who took him off the streets and built him into a famous detective. Ray enjoyed the bright lights, but now he’s trapped in a deadly Faustian deal with seemingly no way out. Ray wanders the night, reliving scenes from his past and connecting the dots. He is on a missing persons case, searching for a former officer of the law, his former partner, who left the force to start a private investigation business, then disappeared off the face of the earth. Ray wakes up in a john in a diner, on the nod. He keeps doing this. He has a case of amnesia and continuously repeats the same scenarios. With the help of Amber and Taxi Driver with a hidden stake in the game, it dawns on Ray just what reality he is in. Ray is investigating a case in hell. And the only way out is for him to solve it. To make the clock tick faster, Ray has flat-lined in an emergency room and is traversing the circles of hell while his body teeters on the brink of expiration. What Ray doesn’t know is that he is not a detective. And the case he’s on isn’t his own…