Jeremiah is a diabetic 12-year old who lives with his single mother, a night-nurse who looks after paralyzed people. Their life is made up of loving routines. Jeremiah looks after his mother when she comes home exhausted from work, and he spends hours on his own spying on his neighbors, playing chess on his computer, and dreaming up stories. 

Three things come to disrupt Jeremiah's predictable life: their next door neighbor commits suicide on Christmas day; her apartment is taken over by a mysterious biker; and a string of single women in the area are raped and killed. To protect his mother, Jeremiah tries to unmask the killer...