Kay Doubleday

Killer Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll moves in on gangster Dutch Schultz in 1920s New York.

Alan is a Seattle college student volunteering at a crisis center. One night when at the clinic alone, a woman calls up the number and tells Alan that she needs to talk to someone. She informs Alan she took a load of pills, and he secretly tries to get help. During this time, he learns more about the woman, her family life, and why she wants to die. Can Alan get the cavalry to save her in time before it's too late?

A junkman who lives along New York's East River saves a woman from an attacker, then lets her stay with him.