Cold-blooded ace divorce lawyer Lyra is invited to stay at the conservative Astin estate. She witnesses the seemingly fragile Governor's wife, Charlotte, being publicly forced to kneel and made to eat raw meat. Late that night, Charlotte, barely dressed and covered in wounds, knocks on Lyra's door begging for help. While tending her wounds, they lose control and spend the night together. Afterward, by day there is the Governor's twisted control, by night their secret affair. Charlotte uses every means to seduce Lyra. Though Lyra discovers Charlotte is a "white-cut black" — using her to take down her husband and having had affairs with powerful men — she cannot help but fall. Until at a banquet, Lyra draws a gun in a fierce clash with the Governor to protect Charlotte. The next morning, the Governor is found dead in his bedroom. Surveillance footage shows Lyra leaving with the murder weapon, yet all she remembers is a blood-soaked Charlotte climbing into her bed at dawn.
