She is sleeping with an artist; her husband, much older than she, is controlling; plus, he’s a rich international investor in financial trouble. Then we learn that she’s in love with the artist, she has her own fortune, which the artist is possibly more interested in than in her, and her husband has figured out she’s having an affair with him. He approaches the artist with the plans for a perfect murder. But the best laid plans gang aft a-gley.