Joe Wilmot is a big fish in a small pond, running the premiere movie house in town with a wife who hates him and a housemaid who wants to get in his pants. With his wife putting pressure on him to cut her loose and a major competitor wanting to put him out of business, what's a little murder to get a fella out of a jam? From celebrated crime author Jim Thompson (The Killer Inside Me, The Getaway, The Grifters) comes this cutthroat portrait of a man pushed to his breaking point.