John confronts his wife, Sophia, about an intruder on their estate, accusing her of lying. He reveals he knows about her affair with his stepmother and threatens her hospitalized grandmother unless she complies. Desperate for a divorce, Sophia pleads. John offers a deal: represent his father, Benjamin, in his divorce, but secretly fight for the stepmother, Mia. Sophia agrees, violating her ethics, in exchange for freedom. At the meeting, she is horrified to discover the man she slept with the night before is Benjamin, her powerful father-in-law.