Lovely but heartless, Kayla Robertson rules over her department with an iron fist, treating her subordinates as stepping-stones in her quest for an elusive promotion to upper management. Unbeknownst to Kayla, one of those oppressed subordinates, a former molecular engineer named Howard Taylor, is obsessed with her beyond all reason. Using secret knowledge thought lost in a catastrophic lab explosion, Howard constructs a device quite literally capable of cutting Kayla down to size...