Haunted by a tragic past, a stunning music student flees her homeland and ends up in an estranged marriage in Los Angeles, where her piano teacher's lover sparks a passion in her that threatens to destroy everything.

Ellen, after being viciously blinded by an unidentified assailant, has become a veritable shut-in, living and working out of her apartment, never venturing outside, waiting for her assailant to make his next move.