After nearly being flattened by detritus plummeting from a skyscraper, a mild-mannered man discovers that he's wanted for murder. Frank Thompson regains consciousness in the street, believing it's his lucky day after escaping death. He then hurries home only to be told that he left his wife a year earlier with no explanation. Raven-haired Virginia is thrilled to have her man back in one piece. But, as fearsome Danny Nearing, the amnesiac becomes the target of a city-wide manhunt. Thompson is forced onto a dark path of fear, yearning to find the truth about his lost year. He must somehow overcome the results of the accident that almost caused his bride to wear black. For the previous year as Nearing, he's carried on a torrid affair with a phantom lady, sexy blonde Ruth Dillon, who has no intention of letting him go back to the wife he claims he has. Is he the brutal killer? The meek Thompson finds that impossible to believe, but how can he counter the overwhelming evidence when he's a small man lost behind a black curtain of doubt?—David Stevens