Actress Bella lives as a prisoner of her own inauthentic life. Feeling like a hopeless case she realizes only she can make the changes necessary. This in turn makes her feel even more desperate since she cannot see how her fortunes will change by themselves. Now having endured years of violence at the hands of her boorish husband Tony, a freak accident involving a knife sharpening rod allows Bella a shot at redemption. Working on the philosophy that the more good consequences an act produces, the more right that act, Bella’s immediate course of action seems morally viable. However, with the arrival of her smitten admirer Lenny and his erring voice of reason her choices appear to better serve her own welfare rather than the greater good. In the end, with Lenny’s natural guilt getting in the way of her ennoblement Bella’s desperation leads to unexpected consequences.