The life of a successful young lawyer, Gus Whitley, was on the rise - a brilliant career, high income, a wonderful family. And suddenly his world, always so reliable, suddenly collapsed - his wife DISAPPEARED WITHOUT A TRACE. The FBI agents and police officers leading the case are at first sure: she is the next victim of a merciless maniac operating in the city. But very soon circumstances appear that allow them to accept another version: the missing woman is not a victim, but an ACCEPTANT in the crimes of the elusive killer. Who, besides Gus, can protect the woman he loves? Gus begins his own investigation, and now he himself is increasingly tormented by the question: IS SHE REALLY INNOCENT?! There are too many fatal coincidences and too few of the woman whose portrait emerges reminds him of the wife about whom he knew, it would seem, everything...