As Diondre Howell re-adjusts to civilian life and struggles to cope with the scars of the Iraq war, he increasingly becomes a threat to those he cares about the most – his family.

An actress, three months post-partum, reads through fragments of the archive of Suzanne Césaire as she prepares to perform excerpts of the writer's work.

After a patient mutters a possible murder confession under anesthesia, Nurse Sarah Harwood is thrust into a tense game of cat and mouse-racing to uncover the truth before she becomes the next victim.