A chess grandmaster is in a big tournament, and when his lover is found painted up and the blood drained out of her body he becomes a chief suspect. After he gets a call from the killer urging him to try and figure out the game, he cooperates with police and a psychologist to try and catch the killer, but doubts linger about the grandmaster's innocence as the string of grisly murders continues.

• Cineplex Odeon Films
• Cinevox Filmproduktion GmbH
• Christopher Lambert
• Diane Lane
• Tom Skerritt
• Daniel Baldwin
• Ferdy Mayne
• Don Thompson
• Megan Leitch
• Katharine Isabelle