In a grimy graffiti-covered recess in one of Melbourne's tangled inner city laneways, a woman is found murdered. 'Why would anyone want to kill her? She was so ordinary.' was the oft-repeated phrase DI Robbie heard when the name of the deceased was revealed. So why then was the body propped up in such an extraordinary position, almost as if she was intimate with the portrait on the wall? Was this death intended to be symbolic or was the placement merely a device to deceive?