Jack Andrews (Kilmer) is a down-on-his-luck private detective who receives themost unusual offer of his career: a beautiful and mysterious woman, Fay Forrester (Whalley-Kilmer), wants to hire him to fake her murder. But as he falls under her seductive spell, he finds himself thrust into a murky world of treachery, greed and murder. Soon Jack must face his own darkest instincts in a final life-or-death confrontation in which he and Fay can trust no oneespecially not eachother.