Brad Baxter is a down-and-out writer who is working on a biography of a renowned Shakespearean actor who perished in a fire in his mansion, Dammond Hill. When Baxter confronts the widow, Cynthia Dammond, he is drawn deeper into the web of deception that Cynthia has woven and learns that it's too late to turn away from the events that will end in tragedy and horror. Starring Academy Award winning actress Louise Fletcher.