Clarice Starling, an inexperienced FBI trainee, must initiate and sustain an unorthodox relationship with "Hannibal the Cannibal" in order to bring in a psychotic serial killer before his next target, a Senator's missing daughter, becomes yet another victim.

A quiet summer night...a neat suburban house...and another innocent, happy family is shattered - the latest victims of a grisly series of hideous sacrificial killings that no one understands, and no one can stop. Nobody lives to tell of the unimaginable carnage. Only the blood-stained walls bear witness. All hope rests on Special Agent Will Graham, who must peer inside the killer's tortured soul to understand his rage, to anticipate and prevent his...