Ted Cole (Jeff Bridges) tem uma carreira brilhante como escritor de livros infantis. Casado com Marion (Kim Basinger), eles vivem em um condomínio de luxo em Nova York. Um trágico acidente ocorrido anos atrás fez com a vida de Ted e Marion mudasse, sendo que nos anos seguintes ocorreram vários casos de infidelidade mútua entre eles. É quando Eddie O'Hare (Jon Foster), um jovem que deseja aprender as técnicas de Ted, passa a ser seu novo assistente. Ao passar o verão com o casal Eddie modifica a vida de ambos e faz com que relembrem as feridas do passado.
A handsome and successful young man with a lovely fiancée, James Jackson seems to have everything going for him, but his life begins to unravel when he develops an acute sense of paranoia. At first, he notices little things at his office that he takes as signs that people are out to get him, but soon things escalate, with Jackson convinced that a perfume ad on television holds sinister messages aimed at him. Is Jackson losing his mind, or are the threats real?
A Yugoslav stage actor marries an American girl in Belgrade and has a child with her, when his career downhill out of political reasons he develops a drinking habit, his wife leaves him and takes their daughter to U.S.A.
