Pamela Smart (Helen Hunt) knows exactly what she wants and is willing to do anything to get it. She is fed up with teaching, and her marriage offers little excitement. Looking for a way out she applies for a job at a local TV station. When her dreams of fame are dashed by rejection, she seduces 15-year-old Billy (Chad Allen), one of her students. Pam challenges Billy to prove his love for her by getting rid of her husband (Hank Stratton). The stakes heat up with a huge insurance policy on her husband's life.
Pamela Ann Smart (Wojas) (born August 16, 1967), is serving a life sentence for accomplice to first-degree murder, conspiracy to commit murder and witness tampering in New Hampshire. Smart was convicted for conspiring with her 15-year-old lover, William (or Billy) Flynn, and his three friends to kill her 24-year-old husband, Gregory (also known as Gregg) Smart, in Derry, New Hampshire.