A romantic thriller which deals with forbidden love, mystery and ultimately murder as a psychiatrist becomes enamoured with a strange woman who may, or may not, have killed one of his patients. Scheider plays Dr Sam Rice, a psychiatrist who is drawn into a dangerous game of love and murder with a patients mistress (Streep) in this Hitchcock style thriller. Combining all the twists and turns of the best film mystery with the moodiness of classic film noir.