FBI trainee Clarice Starling is assigned to help find a missing woman and save her from 'Buffalo Bill, ' a psychopathic serial killer who skins his victims. Clarice attempts to gain a better insight into the twisted mind of the killer by talking to another psychopath, Dr. Hannibal The Cannibal' Lecter, as he used to be a respected psychiatrist. FBI agent-in-charge Jack Crawford believes that the mind manipulator Lecter may have the answers to their...

FBI agent Clarice Starling interviews serial killer Hannibal Lecter in prison, hoping to gain psychological insight and clues to the actions of another serial killer on the loose. Lecter, a brilliant but demented psychiatrist with a taste for human flesh, has an agenda all his own, and plays mind games with Starling.