In Motive, Emery Simms, a highly educated and successful business magnate, is married to the archetypal wife Constance. Things go bad when Emery has an extramarital affair with the exotic and free-spirited Allanah. When high society politics, dodgy business transactions, negative press, and a horrific murder intersect, they threaten to destroy more than just his unstable marriage. The cops unearth a maze of duplicity, ambitions, and objectives where the stakes are high and nothing is as it seems.