In London, the body of a millionaire named Hugo Fletcher is discovered tied to a bed; the police have no doubt that the killer is a woman. The crime scene, the particular cruelty with which the unknown woman dealt with the man, literally everything screams about the personal nature of the murder, probably committed out of revenge. The main suspect is the millionaire's wife Laura. This woman has many secrets, and she is in no hurry to share with the police her very personal story about how her husband turned from an attractive suitor into a domestic tyrant and calculating criminal. It soon turns out that Laura was far from the only woman in Hugo Fletcher's life, and she was not the only one hiding frightening skeletons in the closet...