Regan Madison is the only daughter of a wealthy family. She and her three older brothers were raised by nannies and today run the family business, a chain of luxury hotels. Regan returns to her hometown of Chicago after an extended business trip and meets her two childhood friends, one of whom is a reporter, for lunch
To help gather information for a big story, Regan and her friends attend a seminar conducted by Dr. Laurence Shields, a self-help guru, whom they suspect of taking advantage of wealthy, vulnerable women. During the seminar, Shields asks the participants to make a list of people they'd be happy never to see again. Some of the participants jokingly call it a 'murder list.'
Regan halfheartedly makes a list, expecting to burn it in the fireplace after the exercise. But an ill-timed.....
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