Is anyone really aware of someone? That's the question Diane, Larry B. Max's wife, must answer. Is her husband the virtuous senator and good family father she married, or a white knight drunk of her mission whose intransigence has pushed her benefactor to suicide? Larry, he investigates another identity: who is Jonny, her accuser of the shadow? And his only informant has just died with only time to tell her a psychiatric hospital, ideal for the outcome of the most hichcockian of her adventures.