Vrouwenversierder Mike Mason, star of the television program Bargain Basement, and his wife Liz get involved in a hit-and-run accident in which the perpetrator drives away. In the accident, the young teenager Carol Mitchell loses their life. They think they have gotten away with it, but seven years later they are called by someone who claims to be Carol Mitchell.
Wanneer Mike and Liz that evening after an award ceremony come home, they find their home completely ransacked. On the wall, the name "Carol Mitchell" is painted in large letters... and with that their nightmare begins.
After a blood-curdling series of unexpected twists, the story reaches its dramatic denouement, in which the shocking truth behind the death of Carol Mitchell comes to light... as well as the true identity of the one who terrorizes them.