Dr. Eldon Chance is a neuropsychiatrist who conducts psychiatric examinations of suspects in criminal and judicial investigations. His carefully built life begins to fall apart at the seams: after 15 years of marriage, his wife files for divorce, and in addition, Chance faces bankruptcy. Due to disappointment in life, profession and his own principles, Chance decides to personally help one of his patients, Jacqueline Blackstone, but soon realizes that he has become a pawn in someone else's game, and Jacqueline's past hides many secrets. Chance begins his own investigation and encounters a world where cruelty reigns, where no one can be trusted, and psychopathy is far from the worst thing that can happen. The usual rational arguments are deceiving, professional knowledge does not help, and for the first time faced with real madness outside the safe office, Doctor Chance realizes that there is nothing left to lose, and you can get out of the abyss only by rejecting the rules and going all out...