Dr. George Stanton, a renowned medical geneticist, is involuntarily admitted into the psychiatric ward of a Los Angeles area hospital after what appears to be an attempted suicide by cyanide poisoning. However, he denies poisoning himself, despite the suicide note that was composed on his computer, printed from his printer, and discovered on his desk. Is he delusional, as his psychiatrist believes, or is he the target of an elaborate assassination plot? Only his lab manager, Lynn Johnson, and a shrewd LAPD detective, Lieutenant Sharkey, can uncover the truth and expose the evil that threatens to destroy him and his life's work.