Not being able to stomach life on the street after the demoralizing exposure to pimps, prostitutes, drugs, thieves, and more, police officer Nathan Rodriguez quits the force after just 6 months to become a forensic sketch artist.  Nate doesn’t use the department’s kits or computers to draw his sketches - he prefers to go by witnesses’ recall and see the criminals through their eyes. 

Chief of Police Perry Denton is against is against hiring Rodriguez to catch a serial killer. He thinks Nate is under the illusion he is a psychic or has ESP, and suspects Nate might even be into voodoo, but Terry Russo, head of detectives, is confident that Nate can help her catch a serial killer. The killer also sketches, and Terry considers this a link, so she manages to convince Chief Denton to hire Nate. 

The killer makes sketches of his victims dead before he kills them. Terry wants Nate to analyze these sketches and see whether he can tell her any information or insights about the killer. 

But now the killer is after Nate and sending sketches that confuse him. Nate has to get a picture in his mind of the killer and figure what his intentions are, but the sketch he has been working on is fuzzy. When is becomes clear, what Nate sees shocks him...