For Claire, the ultimate shark, the world is her ocean. After circumstances force her to leave Milwaukee, she sets her sights on Chicago to find her former high school love and extract revenge. Unaware of the storm brewing, Shawn McCauley not remembering Claire from school unwittingly hires her to work at his firm. Suddenly both his life and career begin an evil downward spiral.
Mentally ill and with her insidious personality, Claire concocts schemes littered with death, lies and cheap sultry sex to stay a few steps ahead of her fellow employees and the law. But someone is now onto Claire and her evil plan. Believing she is the puppet master and her fellow employees are nothing more than her puppets, she is determined to prevent anything from stopping her diabolical plans. As her insane schemes begin unraveling, the puppet master becomes one of the puppets. In the end, which puppets will be left?