A Double Life

The successful middle-aged Broadway actor Anthony "Tony" John is a dedicated, lonely professional who still loves his former wife Brita. After portraying Othello for almost two years, Tony has a breakdown, losing his sense of reality and confusing his identity with that of his character. One night he meets waitress Pat Kroll in a distant bar and spends the night with the easy woman. He proposes to Brita but she refuses to remarry him, and he goes into a fit of jealousy against their friend Bill. He then visits Pat at night, where he lives the situation of Othello killing Desdemona. The police arrest a suspect, but Bill wants to prove that Tony is responsible for the murder.