A private eye is hired by an insurance company to investigate a shipping magnate suspected of deliberately sinking his own ships for the insurance money. He finds himself involved in a web of deception, double-crossing and murder.
One man's attempts to defeat the tortures of his own mindscape come to a head in the midst of a game of poker, when a mysterious figure interjects the flow of things and everything takes a turn for the worst. As the audience and the protagonist experience the same horrors it leads them to ask the...