Looking to escape her unhappy marriage, villainous femme fatale Bridget Gregory (Linda Fiorentino) convinces her partner, Clay (Bill Pullman), to offer alcoholic, subsequently steals the profits and runs out on him. She stops in a small town enroute to Chicago, where she ensnares her second conquest, insurance man Mike Swale (Peter Berg). Bridget convinces a scam to conduct, after getting work at his insurance company -- when she begs him to help get rid of her partner, but things have a deadly turn.