FBI trainee Clarice Starling finds herself in an unsettling alliance with Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a imprisoned serial killer of terrifying intellect, seeking his psychological insights to track down a deranged murderer with a grotesque obsession. As Clarice navigates the twisted mind games of her imprisoned consultant, she must determine how much of his help she can trust while racing to save a kidnapped woman from a fate worse than death. The hunt becomes a psychological battlefield where the line between hunter and hunted blurs dangerously.
A young F.B.I. cadet must receive the help of an incarcerated and manipulative cannibal killer to help catch another serial killer, a madman who skins his victims.