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?
