Police detective Jacques Laniels life becomes a nightmare the day driveby shootists gun down his partner Thomas Colin His colleagues make matters worse by blaming him for the death and after his wife leaves him Laniel decides to quit the force and launch a private investigation into Colins murder Soon afterward Laniel finds the bulletriddled body of famed author and literature professor Zachary Osborne tied to his car hood The professors wife hires Laniel to solve the murder but what the detective finds is ugly Osborne was a part of a lucrative landspeculation deal that involved the sale of a crumbling old rectory that had been turned into a halfway house called the Haven of the Monsters The name is apt for all the residents are convicted killers who were given inordinately light sentences When Lanier starts questioning the Havens tenants and their crimes are revealed via flashback it takes on the character of a David Lynch production
