Sarah Morgan is a succesful and powerful defense attorney in Washington DC. As a named partner at her firm, life is going exactly how she planned. The same cannot be said for her husband, Adam. He's a struggling writer who has had a little succes in his carreer and he tires of his and Sarah's reletionship as she is constantly working.
Out in the secluded Woods, at the couple's lake house, Adam engages in a passionate affair with Kelly Summers. But one morning everything changes. Kelly is found brutally stabbed to death and now, Sarah must take on her hardest case yet: defending her own husband, a man acused of murdering his mistress ...