Lillian serves as Joyce White's impeccable corporate secretary by day and his unacknowledged bedmate by night, dedicating five silent years to an emotionless partnership. When Joyce publicly announces his high-society engagement to a shipping heiress, Lillian refuses to linger in the shadows as his mistress and quietly prepares her exit.
Ignoring Joyce's patronizing attempts to retain her with expensive jewelry and dismissive allowances, Lillian drops her formal resignation and vanishes from his corporate empire. Unhinged by the absence of the only woman who ever understood him, Joyce descends into frantic obsession, burning his familial alliances to hunt down the aide who abandoned him.
