Psychiatrist Dr. Lila Colleti (Gina Gershon) - newly divorced and devastated when her ex wins custody of their two little girls, because of Lila's job - psychiatrist for the criminally insane at the local prison. When one of Lila's patients, Ed Baikman (Sean Patrick Flanery), is released into a half-way house, he decides under the delusional influence of his psychosis to help her out by murdering her ex-husband and his girlfriend, and then threatening to tell the cops they'd planned it together when she refuses to become romantically involved with him. Though Lila's lover, police detective Macy Kobacek (Michael Biehn), stands by her, Baikman does such an ingenious job of implicating Lila in the crime that even Macy begins to have his doubts about Lila's innocence.