In Sixties New York, Walter Stackhouse is a wealthy, profitable architect and unhappily married to the gorgeous however broken Clara. His need to be freed from her feeds his obsession with Kimmel, a person suspected of brutally murdering his personal spouse. When Walter and Kimmel's lives turn into dangerously intertwined, a ruthless police detective turns into satisfied he has discovered the assassin. However because the strains blur between innocence and intent, who, the truth is, is the actual killer?