Dougal Armstrong, a young Pittsburgh architect nds himself drawn deeply into the bohemian lifestyle of Liam Carragher, a volatile painter and his lusty entourage. A slip up during a evening of heavy drinking reveals a security lapse at the Federal Reserve Bank of Pittsburgh and the subsequent robbery of millions of dollars in negotiable securities along with the murders of six employees. In the tradition of Alfred Hitchcock, the young man's once simple life, consisting of his work and occasional visits from his "neighbor-with-bene ts" Kirsten is up ended in a whirlwind of repercussions! Once his identity as the project manager is revealed Dougal is hounded by the terrifying threats from a mysterious "gray man", the police detectives investigating the murders who put him in the Allegheny County jail for a night to soften him up, the federal agent who wants the money returned, all contribute to the collapse of his former life. With Dougal's infatuation by and lust for the exquisitely beautiful Lucia Falco, the painter's muse, model and lover, is his survival even possible?
