Chimney sweep Shane McCarthy has three great loves in life: a whip-smart wife named Lou, pick-up basketball, and booming hometown San Francisco. While Lou haunts easy millions at the height of the dot-com frenzy, Shane fills his extra hours searching for a troubled player from his weekly hoops game a 20-year-old names Samson who's disappeared, leaving only a bulging duffle bag behind. Following a trail that winds through Pacific Heights parties and the projects, Shane unravels a mystery that links his wife's new world to missing Samson and his family.