A newspaper advice columnist named Julie begins to fear for her life when her readers start becoming the victims of a serial killer. The murderer uses scissors as their weapon of choice, gruesomely stabbing women to death. As the body count starts to rise, Julie grows increasingly paranoid, and her anxiety is compounded by a series of creepy letters she receives that seem to suggest she might be the next target. The letters bear an eerie resemblance to the notes she gets from her readers, making her suspect that the killer could be one of her own correspondents. With the threat inching closer, Julie's world spirals into a nightmare, and she finds it hard to trust anyone around her, including her own patients.

Surrounded by a cast of potential suspects, including her ex-husband Doug, her sexually aggressive landlord Gilbert, and her own therapist, Dr. Fales, who possesses a disturbingly calm demeanor amidst the chaos, Julie becomes trapped in a web of deception and danger. Dr. Fales, played with chilling precision, displays a particular interest in Julie's well-being, offering her comfort that masks his more sinister motives. As the tension builds, Julie's trust frays, leaving her isolated in her terror. Just as she begins to piece together the identity of the killer, the plot takes a sharp turn, plunging the characters into a dark and twisted conclusion that forever alters the fabric of their lives.