A beautiful young woman called Marilyn Picks up a stranger in a bar and takes him home to her manhattan apartment. The next morning her housekeeper Discovers Marilyn's body. Marilyn's life and death have far-reaching eff...A beautiful young woman called Marilyn Picks up a stranger in a bar and takes him home to her manhattan apartment. The next morning her housekeeper Discovers Marilyn's body. Marilyn's life and death have far-reaching effects on others, even people she has never met: a charismatic former police commissioner on the verge of a breakdown; a struggling writer; a folk art dealer plumbing the depths of her own fierce sexuality; a lawyer who prefers murder trials because there's one less witness.