While he is away visiting a professional Dominatrix, a college professor's wife is murdered in a manner that leaves him the prime suspect in the crime. But the young prosecutor assigned to the case has doubts about the homicide detective's investigation, suspecting it is based more on his aversion to alternative sexuality than on the evidence. As she conducts her own investigation, she learns as much about herself as she does about the sensuous world of S&M and role play in which the innocent and the guilty reside.