在这部玻璃牢房犯罪/剧情片中,本影片由派翠西亚·海史密斯的一部快被人忘记却相当有趣的小说改编而成。蒙冤坐牢五年的丈夫刑满释放，可回到家中，他却发现了一系列与妻子有关的秘密，旋即坠入嫉妒泥潭，不可自拔。影片巧妙地展现出被嫉妒之火毁灭的过程，悲伤的结局令人唏嘘不止。影片中男女主角的表现堪称精准，令人佩服。
The architect Phillip Braun is framed by his former employer Lasky that embezzles the money that should be used to buy suitable material of a construction that collapses, killing a person. Phillip is wrongly imprisoned and for five years his lawyer David Reinalt is not capable to prove that Lasky is the responsible for the accident. When Phillip is released, he meets his beautiful wife Lisa Braun and then his son Timmie. Soon Lasky seeks Philip out to poison the relationship of his wife with David. Lisa is very close to David and Phillip becomes suspicious of their friendship. David finds a job for Phillip with a friend of him and he tells that Lasky is pressing him because he is still trying to prove Phillip's innocence. Soon Lisa confesses to her husband that she had a brief two-week love affair with David a long time ago when he was in prison, but now they are only friends. Phillips is disturbed with the revelation and his jealous increases while Lisa frequently visits David. One day, Phillip visits David and he tells that he has just saved his life since Lasky was trying to kill him. But Phillip kills David with a statue and cleans his fingerprints. Lasky and Phillip becomes the prime suspect of Police Commissioner Österreicher. However, Lasky had bugged David's apartment and he blackmails Phillip with an audio tape. What will Phillip do?
