The curtain rises on a richly furnished suite, high atop the fashionable Plaza Sheridan Hotel. A tall, languid looking girl, wearing a fabulously expensive mink coat, walks up and down before a full-length mirror, as a well-dressed young man watches her anxiously. He is Richard Cheval, whose father - John Cheval - owns one of New York's most exclusive fashion shops, and as Richard speaks to the girl in the mink coat, he little dreams that his words are opening the door to murder and horror...