 A small-time attorney is having an affair with an alluring woman, who is married to a wealthy man. The woman and her husband have a prenuptial agreement which stipulates that if he is unfaithful to her, and if she has proof, she will be entitled to a large divorce settlement. The attorney and the woman devise a scheme to set up the husband, enlisting another woman to seduce him and hiring a private investigator to document his infidelity. At first, things seem to work out according to the couple s plan; but as the plot unfolds, it becomes clear that nothing is quite what it seems.