A wife with a young family finds life becoming unbearable with her successful but violent and abusive husband. After filing for divorce, she quickly learns that her husband, through fear of his personal life embarrassing his clients, has commissioned an assassin to murder her before going to court. Unfortunately for him, the hired assassin turns out to be an FBI agent. The FBI convinces her that she must pretend to have been murdered in order to prove her husband's involvement. Based upon a true story.