希拉胡德是一个前警察的婚姻是在岩石上。她并没有向她丈夫提出有关外遇的事情，而是将监控摄像机隐藏在家中，观察他的违法行为，成为她自己生活的窥探者。她的丈夫汤姆卡莱是一名鸟类学家，与前女友梅尔詹姆斯开始恋爱，他的美丽和脆弱与他研究的鸟类相呼应。 Ray Starling是一家精品酒店的魅力所在，她是Merle的爱人，并与她的父亲James先生打交道，James是一位强大的石油大亨，他在阴影中工作，但影响力触及整个城市。梅尔的妹妹哈泽尔也被汤姆吸引，但被困在斯塔林的权力网中。卡尔文是一个警察，他的前合伙人胡德的忠诚是在她自己的监视录音带上证据时进行测试的，她将她和汤姆连接到斯塔林的谋杀案，甚至可能是梅尔的神秘死亡。
Sheila Hood is an ex-cop whose marriage is on the rocks. Rather than confronting her husband about an affair, she hides surveillance cameras in her home and watches his transgressions, becoming a voyeur of her own life. Her husband, Tom Kale, is an ornithologist who begins an affair with an ex-girlfriend, Merle James, whose beauty and fragility echoes that of the birds he studies. Ray Starling, the charismatic owner of a boutique hotel, is Merle’s lover, and has dealings with her father, Mr James, a powerful oil baron who operates in the shadows but whose influence touches the whole city. Merle’s younger sister, Hazel, is also drawn to Tom, but trapped in Starling’s web of power. Calvin is an cop whose loyalty to his ex partner, Hood, is tested when mounting evidence from her own surveillance tapes connects her and Tom to Starling’s murder, and perhaps even Merle’s mysterious death.
