Double Indemnity is the story of a successful insurance salesman who meets a sultry housewife during a routine house call to renew an automobile insurance policy for her husband. After a short flirtation, the woman wonders aloud how she could take out a policy on her husband's life without him knowing about it. Though the salesman wants no part of it, the very desirable woman persuades him that the two of them, together, should kill her husband. The salesman comes up with a plan in which the woman's husband will die an unlikely death and thereby will activate the "double indemnity" clause in the insurance policy, to pay the widow twice the normal amount.