Forensic psychiatrist Paul Lucas is assigned to treat Craig Cavanaugh, a wealthy teen who has been stalking a Harvard teaching assistant, and soon finds the brilliant but evil young man intruding on every aspect of his life, and threatening his already shaky marriage.
Abigail Bukula, a young lawyer in the South African Justice Department, learns that the secret son of her aunt, who died in a massacre years ago, has been arrested by the Zimbabwean government, and held as a political prisoner.