 London psychiatrist Clive Riordan, royally fed up with the repeated affairs of his wife Storm, plots a seemingly  perfect  revenge against her latest lover, American Bill Kronin. Catching them in the act, he marches Bill off at gunpoint; and from the viewpoint of Storm and the rest of the world, Bill simply vanishes. But there s far more to the meticulously worked out plot than Clive s victims suspect, with the end slowly preparing in his private laboratory. Enter a mild-mannered Scotland Yard man, who seemingly has no clue beyond a missing dog...