Le détective Tom O'Toole (Nick Nolte) enquête sur un jeune homme accusé du meurtre de son oncle. Il se laisse séduire par son commanditaire, la troublante Angela Crispini (Debra Winger)… (A prominent doctor from New England has been murdered, and his young nephew has been convicted of the crime. A seductive, possibly unstable woman named Angela Crispini persuades a private investigator, Tom O'Toole, to look into the case. She claims that the youth is innocent and that "everybody" knows who the real killer is.)