Deceived

Adrienne Saunders is happily married to art dealer Jack and they share a daughter named Mary. Their peaceful life is established as they go about their days together. The harmony of their home is the quiet backdrop before danger begins to intrude.

The local museum curator is murdered, and Jack falls under suspicion of having sold forged treasures to the museum. He travels to Boston on a work trip, which unsettles Adrienne as she frets about his whereabouts. A friend's tip that she may have seen him in town adds to the tension.

Adrienne confronts Jack about the rumors, but he insists he wasn’t there. The pressure over the forged relics continues to mount, and Adrienne learns from the police that Jack has died in a car accident. The revelations push her to doubt the man she thought she knew.

Adrienne discovers a high school yearbook photo of her husband credited to a man named Frank Sullivan. The finding reveals that Jack was living under a false identity. Realization dawns that her marriage was built on a deception.

She tracks down Jack's cousin Evelyn, who confirms that Frank and Jack were inseparable in high school. Evelyn directs Adrienne to Frank's mother Rosalie, who lives in a rundown Brooklyn apartment. The trail begins to pull Adrienne deeper into the past.

Rosalie bluntly tells Adrienne that Frank was selfish and difficult. She explains Frank's troubled upbringing, with an alcoholic father and a mother who worked the toll booth. The background amplifies the mystery surrounding her husband’s true identity.

A stalker lurks at Adrienne's loft and slips into her bedroom while she sleeps, watching Mary. The housekeeper later surprises the intruder, who leaves her nearly dead in the bathroom and ransacks the apartment. The quiet threat turns personal and immediate.

Adrienne receives an urgent message from Mrs. Sullivan and rushes to her apartment. There she finds Mrs. Sullivan gone and Jack appearing; Adrienne slaps him as he admits he has been living under Jack's name after a friend's death. He explains that a man named Dan Sherman is blackmailing him and that he faked his own death to escape, risking Adrienne and Mary in the process.

Sherman, the blackmailer, is insistent on having an Egyptian necklace in their apartment, and he demands Adrienne locate it. As she leaves, Jack watches her from the window beside the body of his murdered mother, signaling the depth of his duplicity. The stakes rise as Adrienne prepares to play along to uncover the truth.

Adrienne discovers a Parks Department photo ID bearing her husband's picture but the name Daniel Sherman. She tracks down an address and surprises a pregnant Mrs. Sherman in her Brooklyn home, where wedding pictures reveal Adrienne’s husband with the woman. A phone call from Jack confirms she has uncovered his new life and demands the necklace be retrieved.

Jack congratulates Adrienne on uncovering his new life and reveals that he has kidnapped Mary. He explains that Mary traded the necklace to another girl, and he orders Adrienne to retrieve it and meet him at their loft to exchange Mary for the necklace. Tension tightens around the looming confrontation.

At the loft, Adrienne asks to see Mary, but Jack pins her against the wall and demands the necklace first. A tense chase through a construction site follows as Jack declares his creed to always do what comes next, no matter the cost. The danger peaks as the couple collide on the threshold of violence.

Adrienne lures Jack toward an elevator shaft and he falls to his death. She had been holding an unseen elevator cable to create the illusion that she was inside the elevator car, turning the trap into her own escape plan. The immediate threat to Mary is finally resolved.

Adrienne and Mary pack their belongings and prepare to start a new life somewhere else. The dangerous past is left behind as they seek safety and a fresh start away from those who deceived them. The film closes on their cautious, hopeful forward motion.