Harried working mom Karen McCann is stuck in traffic, talking on the phone to her teenage daughter at home, when she hears an intruder break into the house and murder her child. When the courts fail to keep behind bars the murder, Karen seeks her own form of justice.
Although it poses the interesting moral dilemma behind taking the law into your own hands, Schlesinger's film borders on the distasteful in its portrayal of rape and murder.
