Julie is an advice columnist for the city newspaper who begins to receive anonymous notes threatening murder and worse. At about the same time| female members of the group therapy session she attends are being stabbed| one by one| by an unknown assailant. Is there a connection? If so| why do the notes talk about murder with a gun| while the murder victims are being stabbed? At first| the police| her ex-husband| her therapist and her friends all assure her that the notes are probably unrelated| and hoax; but with time| it becomes apparent that someone close to her is responsible. Is it her therapist| Pieter| who has sex with his patients just before they are murdered? Or Pieter’s daughter| who resents Julie for Julie’s romantic involvement with Pieter? Is it Julie’s ex-husband| who never really wanted their divorce? Or maybe Gilbert| the eccentric building maintenance man whom many people believe is a little crazy anyway? Just about everyone around her seems mentally disturbed enough …