Zandalee Martin (Erika Anderson) and her husband Thierry (Judge Reinhold) are content with a comfortable but dull routine until an intruder shatters their complacency. Johnny Collins (Nicolas Cage) and Thierry were once starving artists together, but when Johnny moves a part of Zandalee she thought had died, and their heat soon flares into insatiable passion. As Zandalee tumbles deeper and deeper into a terrifying obsession, and Thierry is consumed with pain and hatred, they tumble towards a final, futile battle, a battle none of them can win.