Julie Webb is hiding in a small town from her ex-husband. who broke into her house one night and attacked her. At her new place, her neighbor turns out to be detective Chris Downing. He pays attention to the beautiful but unsociable neighbor, her behavior alarms the detective. Hearing a strange noise coming from her house one evening, he rushes to help and finds himself caught up in a bloody and twisted family drama. The ex-husband makes a second attempt on Julie's life. And as if that weren't enough, someone else is hunting her. Chris intends, at all costs, to protect the woman he fell in love with and find out who is behind all her misfortunes...