Abandoned as a baby and brutalised in care, sculptor Sam Foundling is the obvious suspect when his wife Cecilia is found beaten to death in his studio. Trish Maguire, who acted for him when he was a child, hopes he didn't do it. But as the evidence against Sam mounts up and there are calls for his arrest, Trish races to find out exactly what happened in the studio that day - before Sam loses his sanity.