Charlie Ravitch is a successful businessman. A former combat pilot who went through the hell of the Vietnam War, he feels like a duck to water in the cruel world of modern commerce. But in his personal life he is unlucky: his wife suffers from Alzheimer's disease, his son died of leukemia, and his daughter Julia is unable to give birth. Charlie is obsessed with the thought of a child - the successor of his family and the heir to his millions. One day in a bar, he meets a pretty young woman who skillfully hides her dark past, and finds himself captive in someone else's nightmare.