Robert Duran is an insurance investigator specializing in art fraud. He lives with his beautiful, fabulously wealthy wife in a magnificent house in Pacific Heights, California. When his wife vanishes, police suspect foul play and that she is dead. Her family hopes that Robert will be arrested and found guilty of a crime no one is sure has occurred. And now a madman is terrorizing Robert's every step, leaving bizarre messages, making threats, and swearing he won't rest until he has executed his final, perfect moment of revenge.