Estranged friends Frank Cassilis (Craig Sheffer) and
Northmour (Daniel Riordan) are fatefully reunited after six years and drawn
together in an uneasy union. The two men play out old scores and suspicions as
they struggle in their separate ways to protect an evil, decrepit embezzler,
Huddlestone (Richard Chamberlain), and his hardened but beautiful daughter,
Clara (Patsy Kensit) from vengeful former associates. Both men desire Clara,
but she has been promised to Northmour in exchange for her father's safety.
With Cassilis' arrival, Northmour has to work hard to ensure that his carefully
orchestrated plans are not disturbed. Shifting alliances and the stark fear of
the imminent danger that faces them turn the island sanctuary and its lone
pavilion into a pressure cooker. The situation explodes with the arrival of
Huddlestone's pursuers. His savage death and a night of terror culminates in a
macabre dance of deadly madness and repressed passions, all bathed in the glow
of the burning pavilion. Cassilis, Clara and Northmour face an ashen dawn. New
links have been forged. New futures chartered. Yet choices still remain as
Cassilis and Northmour face off for the last time under Clara's steely gaze.
As weapons are raised, one question remains: How much blood must be spilled
before one can learn the price of love and loyalty?
