After a jury finds him not guilty of the kidnapping a former patient, Dr. Albert Beck vows to rehabilitate himself. When he lands a teaching job at a prestigious Arizona medical school, he immediately develops a crush on a new student and struggles to keep his growing obsession from taking control of his life. Meanwhile, Dr. Beck's former patient and victim, Sophie Green, decides to enroll in the medical school where he is teaching so she can mete out her own form of personal justice.