A stage adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's novel in which Tom Ripley is sent to Italy to find the errant son of a wealthy American couple and is pulled into a dark world of duplicity and murder as their lives become intertwined.
Tom Ripley, sent to Italy to coax American playboy Dickie Greenleaf to return home, decides instead that he wants to be exactly like Greenleaf and will stop at nothing to reach his goal.