Claire Wright is in despair. She studies acting in New York and, without a green card, takes the only job she can get - being a "bait" for unfaithful husbands in bars, working for a law firm specializing in divorce. But one day the rules of the game change. Her husband client becomes a suspect in the brutal murder of his wife, and the police ask Claire to use her acting talents to extract a confession from the suspect, under the guidance of a sophisticated police psychologist. From the very beginning, Claire doubts Patrick Vogler's guilt. But is her growing confidence in his innocence a sign that she has become too deeply involved in her role—or is it the police making a terrible mistake? She finds herself falling in love with her “target” and begins to wonder who In reality, of the two of them, who is the “bait” and who is the victim? Claire soon realizes that she is playing the most deadly role of her life.