The film is set in Florida. Ned Rasin, a young, successful lawyer, leads a quiet, uneventful life until he meets the very attractive young woman Mattie Walker. She skillfully manipulates his feelings, making him fall in love with her. But the woman is married. And Mattie, in fact, plans to get rid of her husband and get her hands on his considerable fortune. Blinded by passion, the lawyer—who had never before noticed any criminal tendencies in himself—begins to plan the murder. Ned kills her husband, and it seems the crime has been committed perfectly. However, the police are soon hot on the couple’s trail…