Sophie, a PSU art student, has been killed in her apartment, and the crime scene has been staged like a living art piece. All around her are clues of her time in 'The Quiet Crowd'. Detective Uldrich attempts to piece together the last year of her life. But separating fact and fantasy in this world of violence, sexual deviance, and emotional instability is a difficult task when underneath the politically charged social practice art scene may lie something infinitely more sinister.