Sam Bowden is just a smalltown company attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What exactly do they have in common? Fourteen decades back, Sam had been a public defender assigned to Max Cady's rape trial, and a significant mistake was made by him: he hid a record from his illiterate client that could have gotten him wholeheartedly. Currently, the bibliophile Cady was published, and he intends to show Sam Bowden and his family a thing or two regarding loss.