During a parapsychology conference in Rome, a psychic is overwhelmed by the disturbing and murderous thoughts of an audience member. Her claims that she could identify the person led to her demise that night, via a gloved figure with a meat cleaver. Jazz pianist Marcus Daly witnesses the brutal break-in through the window before the police arrive, running up to the apartment only to be met with the psychic’s mutilated body and a missing painting.

Marcus teams up with journalist Gianna Brezzi, hoping to solve the case. However, when one of Marcus’s friends is murdered at the hands of the same killer, the duo find themselves in a string of mysteries. They must work fast or meet the same fate.