Dr. David Remler is a brilliant psychologist and author. But when beautiful, distraught Samantha Kent comes into his office pleading for help with an abusive marriage, he is blinded by her charms and gets personally involved in her case. When she calls him late at night, saying that she is suicidal after having killed her husband, Remler races to the rescue, only to find an empty house with a dead man in it. The police are unconvinced by Remler's story, and regard him as the prime suspect. Moreover, the real Samantha Kent is alive, happy, and someone he has never seen. Now, Remler is forced to put his genius to the test in a race against time with a mastermind out to frame him for murder.