Dan Novice is a retired police detective and his wife, Karen, a retired social worker.
Dan and Karen have been invited to stay with old friends, Armando (Army) and.
Dan has always promised Karen that when they retired, they would travel as a reward to themselves for weathering thirty-one years of his job requirements: working late hours, weekends, and holidays.
The setting is Mexico, with Dan and Karen arriving for a much-anticipated three-month vacation in the town of Curva del Rio Sur.
Dan Novice is a retired police detective and his wife, Karen, a retired social worker