A woman becomes very curious about one of her psychiatrist husband's inmates, a man who was found guilty in the murder and disfigurement of his former wife.

A devoted wife realizes that her husband is having an affair with a man whose life is touched by AIDS. Her compassion and dignity in the face of betrayal shows that love, like AIDS, is blind.

Beth, a bookish teenager, befriends Emilia, an aspiring novelist who has just arrived in town. Emilia soon begins an affair with Beth's father that threatens to have devastating consequences.