Interior decorator Andrea Clarke's chief talent is visualization, seeing the "after" of a "before" scene. She returns from a business trip to the upscale Denver loft she shares with her husband, Maurice, eager to tell him she's discovered she's pregnant. She finds him fully clothed in the bathtub, half his face blown away. The horror of this scene causes her to "see" a place of refuge: a simple, Spartan room whose only design feature is a vase of yellow flowers in a window. Her search for this room leads her to a rural farmhouse where she contentedly awaits the birth of her baby. But one day a stranger comes to disrupt her peace. He paints a vivid picture of what might have happened in the loft back in the city, and too readily, Andrea "sees" it. Or is the handsome stranger perpetrating a cruel scam on a vulnerable, susceptible woman?
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