Just as Stacy Litt is about to get married, her fatherāthe powerful chairman of Litt Corpāreturns after her five-year absence building a business of her own. But when her fiancĆ©, Yale Snow, mistakes him for her former lover, he acts in a fit of blind jealousy. Without seeking the truth, Yale humiliates and violently assaults the man. By the time Stacy rushes to her fatherās side, he is critically injured, clinging to life.