Recently widowed NYC police psychologist Cal Jamison (Martin Sheen) reluctantly finds himself steeped in the investigation of a grisly child murder. His findings point to the practices of a malevolent Caribbean religious cult... and the sect's reach into powerful sectors of society may place his entire family in peril. Director John Schlesinger's graphic, unsettling descent into paranoia co-stars Helen Shaver, Robert Loggia, Jimmy Smits, Harris Yulin.