Shut Eye tells the story of Charlie Haverford, a scammer who runs a small chain of fortune-telling storefronts in Los Angeles. He also builds tricks for a family that controls the business in the city.
One day, Charlie gets a blow to the head from a client's angry boyfriend. This incident intersects with a hypnosis session while auditioning a new "clairvoyant." Suddenly, Charlie, who has lived a life based on fraud, starts to see and feel some very real and fundamental truths.
Charlie's wife Linda is tired of their mediocre life and wants to break away from Fonso, the single father who runs the Marks family's psychic empire and controls the Haverford's future.
Rossellini co-stars as Rita, the cunning, seductive, and sadistic matriarch of the Marks clan.