This psychological thriller is a twisted exploration of the nature of truth. In the old world city of Charleston, South Carolina, there is a brutal murder of a young prostitute, and a series of polygraph tests administered to the primary suspect, Charleston blueblood James Walter Wayland. Despite detectives efforts to find Wayland's weaknesses, it it the detectives themselves whose inner lives are laid bare as their brilliantly manipulative subject expertly turns the tables on his interrogators and blurs the line between fiction and truth.