The Poet on AllMovie

Haunted by the painful memories of the past, a married woman attempting to lead a normal life finds her quest for peace violently shattered by the appearance of an obsessive stalker. Catherine Begley (Mare Winningham) is a woman looking to lay her troubled history to rest. Though things begin to look up when Catherine weds a gentle and loving man (Bruce Davidson), she soon finds the past and present on a tragic collision course when a dangerously disturbed man begins tracking her every movement.