Schindler, identified by the camera with only his Nazi button-holed pin, walks along the street""s sidewalk as he passes a long line of Jewish refugees, each wearing identifying armbands.His elder sister Ruby (Anabel Shaw) who raised him describes her maternal care toward her orphaned brother:Ruby: I""m not only his big sister, but mother and father too.He had used the funding to engage in cocaine smuggling and was being brought to the US for trial on racketeering, bribery, and drug running charges.What is much more important than the basic blackmail-murder plot is the stylish method andprocessof the private detective""s quest, that the viewer identifies with and shares, as he makes his way through the murky world of nasty crime from one oppressive setting o the next, or from one wicked character, fallen woman, orfemme fataleto another, until eventually discovering love with his female protagonist.