Out on the street, she understands it’s in fact David, their particular former mate, but David’s insistence to your being unsure of their particular factors their to perform off several flights from sandwich-basement floor
Fulfilling his employer, Sylvester Josephson (Kevin McCarthy), the guy produces his way-down brand new stairwell, looking to get exterior in the street up to electricity is actually restored to the building. To your his way-down, he suits Shela (Diane Baker), whom, whether or not she can not look for him regarding the tincture, thinks she knows him. Unable to come across her, he is offered in the street, possess a drink, and you may production so you’re able to their building, where in fact the bulbs came straight back to your. However in the period, the newest sub-cellar have ended, folk seems to be appealing your right back just after a lengthy travel, and you can abruptly, he are unable to remember anything from prior to couple of years ago.
And more importantly, how it happened couple of years in the past before he «regained» his thoughts? After David hires earliest-go out gumshoe Ted Caselle (Walter Matthau), government beginning to accumulate, and you will Shela in the near future shows herself to-be some thing more than just an innocent bystander. Will David discover the magic of his apparent amnesia, just before he could be slain by the their unfamiliar assailants?