Ned Ravine (Armand Assante) is a police officer and lawyer who occasionally defends the delinquents he arrests. He crosses paths with a seductive femme fatale, Lola Cain (Sean Young), during an assignment and promptly begins an affair with her. Meanwhile, Ned's wife, Lana (Kate Nelligan), is deep in an affair of her own. Lana and her lover, Frank (Christopher McDonald), are planning to murder Ned in an elaborate fashion so they can collect on his triple indemnity life insurance policy.
