As a favor to a friend, defense attorney McBride takes on a client accused of murdering a woman. When McBride and his partner Phil investigate the deceased, they discover she had many identities.

When therapist George Prescott is murdered by one of McBride's friends, McBride begins to trawl for suspects among the doctor's biggest cases, as well as vindictive lovers, jealous colleagues and vengeful rivals. The disappearance of Prescott's corpse then provides McBride with his biggest challenge.