Brian Wilkins finds his secretary dead in his office shower and decides not to call the police to report the death. He becomes a man on the run and steals the identity of a dead man. Though he successfully evades the law for a while, things crash to a halt when Pat Stewart, a private investigator, figures it all out. In trying to save himself, Brian lands in prison and in a mental hospital, losing everything he most valued-family, career, and reputation.