Michael Bauer is feeling the squeeze from all sides: his business of selling pre-fab warehouses is going bust and his pitch to his wealthy father-in-law for funding of a low-budget horror movie has fallen on deaf ears. Desperate, he hatches a last-ditch plan to murder his wife, Brenda, in order to collect on her trust fund. Michael calls in a favor from an old partner-in-crime, Quarro, to actually do the deed and from there on out, everything goes wrong. Step by step, bit by bit, the whole scheme backfires with dangerous complications — Michael's mistress is killed by her jealous husband… Quarro mistakenly kills Brenda's sister… and now Quarro is demanding payment (regardless of who he killed). As events race to a tense and exciting climax, all of these headaches converge in a final confrontation between Michael and Brenda — with a shocking twist.