Psychiatrist Dr. Lila Colleti is divorcing her husband and is devastated when he wins custody of their two little girls, whom he gets largely because Lila's job, being a psychiatrist for the criminally insane at the local prison, is a potentially dangerous one that forces her to keep long, erratic hours. When one of Lila's patients, Ed Baikman, is released into a half-way house, he decides under the delusional influence of his psychosis to help her out by murdering her ex-husband and his girlfriend, and then threatening to tell the cops they'd planned it together when she refuses to become romantically involved with him. Though Lila's lover, police detective Macy Kobacek, stands by her loyally, Baikman does such an ingenious job of implicating Lila in the crime that even Macy begins to have his doubts about Lila's innocence. 莉拉（吉娜·格申 Gina Gershon 饰）是一位心理医生，在事业上，莉拉精明强干，经验丰富，然而，她却无法医治自己的心病。莉拉的婚姻遭遇了重大危机，更糟糕的是，她或许即将再也见不到她挚爱的两个孩子了。 曾经，莉拉在监狱里为囚犯艾德（肖恩·派特里克·弗兰纳里 Sean Patrick Flanery 饰）做过心理辅导，帮助艾德度过了难关，如今，艾德出狱，为了报答莉拉当年的恩情，他竟然杀死了莉拉的前夫保罗（Nick Boraine 饰）。莉拉所表现出来的拒绝的态度惹恼了艾德，他竟然将杀死保罗的罪行栽赃到了莉拉的头上。面对这糟糕的境况，莉拉该如何才能逃脱艾德的魔爪，并且证明自己的清白呢？
