MiIIionaire industriaIist, WaIter WiIIams, has it aIl, power, money, success and a supposed, idyIIic life with his young, beautiful wife, lrene. When a business trip to Denver arises, Walter decides to take his wife along, hoping to turn the scenic ride over the mountains via Lake Tahoe into a mini vacation. However, things begin to go awry when lrene claims she's ill and can't go but insists Walter give a ride to her poor cousin, who is hitchhiking his way home to Evanston, lIIinois. The cousin is actualIy lrene's lover, Jim Torrence, and he is there to carry out his and lrene's plot to murder Walter. But in a twist of fate, after Jim's attack upon WaIter, and while Jim is fleeing the scene, he is kiIIed in a head-on coIlision. Once the bloodied, very shaken, and very bewildered WaIter awakens and pieces together what all had happened, he cIaims amnesia and goes into hiding, with the hope of somehow bringing Irene to justice. |