Business executive Pat Pendergast arrives in Miami with his wife for the holiday of a lifetime. But is he the victim of a macabre practical joke?

Prosperous Patrick E. Pendergast soaks up the Florida sunshine.

But there are some curious features about the hotel where the Pendergasts are staying. Everybody is just a little too attentive... treating him as though he were almost at death's door.

When a report comes through that he has resigned from the firm, Pendergast begins to feel alarmed.