Wanting to get her husband's mom's inheritance, Louise hides his sudden death from a heart attack: she dumps his body in a lake and makes it look like he went on an urgent business trip. Meanwhile, her husband's relatives gather at their Irish castle to perform an annual ritual commemorating the death of his younger sister, who drowned in a local pond as a child. Louise begins to fawn over her demanding mother-in-law and decides to indulge her morbid grief over her dead daughter.

Bridget wants everything, and she wants it now. Price is no object. She runs off with a million dollars belonging to her husband's creditors and hides in a small town near New York. There she meets Mike and seduces him into a passionate affair. Mike has never met a woman like Bridget before. She doesn't talk about her past and makes no promises about the future. Bridget lets Mike in on her plan to make money fast, while her angry husband tries to get his money back at any cost.