The eccentric millionaire Adrian West dreams of obtaining a magnetic tape recording the final words of the legendary actor Rex Faynes, who died under mysterious circumstances. But instead of hiring private detectives, he entrusts the search to a specialist in pyrotechnic special effects—Sara Katz. Why is he making this choice? Why does he hint that there was a mysterious connection between Sara and the film star? Sara looks for answers to these questions in the past—her own and Faynes’s.