Midnight Baby

In Los Angeles making a documentary about upscale day cares, Maggie

MacGowen visits MacArthur Park to get contrasting footage of the

pubescent prostitutes that populate its dark corners. There she meets

Pisces, a fourteen-year-old hooker with manners that don’t match her

profession. As they bond over a plate of pastrami, Maggie talks her into

spending the night in a shelter. But Pisces comes with baggage: a

nine-year-old hoodlum named Sly. Maggie takes them both to a convent,

where they are fed, bathed, and tucked into bed, just like normal

children. The next day, Pisces is dead, her throat slashed by an unknown

hand. The Los Angeles Police Department has

little time for murdered hookers, so it falls to Maggie to find the

killer. The keys to the case are the young girl’s manners, and the fact

that she died with her virginity intact.