A passionate filmmaker creating a film based upon a true crime casts an unknown mysterious young woman bearing a disturbing resemblance to the femme fatale in the story. Unsuspectingly, he finds himself drawn into a complex web of haunting intrigue: he becomes obsessed with the woman, the crime, her possibly notorious past, and the disturbing complexity between art and truth. From the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina to Verona, Rome, and London, new truths are revealed and clues to other crimes and passions, darker and even more complex, are uncovered.

"Illusion is the first of all pleasures."

Credits

Monte HellmanDirector

Tygh RunyanMitchell Haven

Shannyn SossamonLaurel Graham / Velma Duran

Dominique SwainNathalie Post

Cliff DeYoungCary Stewart / Rafe Taschen