The beautiful playgirl Christina Ford (Bo Derek) walks into the hospital and tells police that Jack shot her boyfriend, Ted Ashby (Steven Bauer), and raped her.

Jack claims he and Christina carried on an affair behind Ted's back and convinces the semi-retired Walter J. Hill (Robert Mitchum) to be his defense lawyer.

Released to Walter's custody, Jack confronts Christina, who claims she's only humoring Jonathan and that she'll change her story in the grand jury hearing.

Additional evidence is introduced, including a pistol with Jack's fingerprints just found on the boat (planted by Christina after their tryst).

Sometime later, Christina has convinced a wealthy psychiatrist at the mental institution she's innocent and made him fall in love with and marry her.