Irena Dubrovna, a New York City-based fashion designer who hails from Serbia, begins a romance with marine engineer Oliver Reed. After they get married, Oliver starts to fear that Irena will turn into the cat person of her homeland’s fables if they are intimate together.
The movie follows trained nurse Betsy as she travels to the tropics to care for Jessica, who has a severe tropical fever that burns out portions of her spine, leaving her in a zombie-like state.
For the last three years, Jeff Bailey has been laying low and trying to live a normal life by running a gas station in a small town, but his past catches up with him. Now he must return to the big city world of danger, corruption, double crosses and duplicitous dames.