Outside the small town of Verdigre, Nebraska, a domestic altercation ends in a shooting death. Frances Thompson claims to have killed her friend Dean Frank in self-defense, but as investigators dig deeper, the evidence and the nature of their relationship suggests there's more to the story that she isn't telling them.

A British aristocrat living in France agonizes over a life-altering decision - stay with his wife, or go with his pregnant mistress. He decides to seek the counsel of a French psychic. The decision he makes in this hour will lead to his own murder.