Ted Maher, a registered nurse in the neonatal unit at the Columbia Presbyterian Center of New York Presbyterian Hospital, develops film inside a camera he found left behind in a discharged patient's room. The camera's owners, Laura and Harry Slatkin, are grateful to retrieve the first photographs of their newborn twins, and Harry Slatkin offers Ted the "job of a lifetime."

Maher interviews with the personal assistant to Edmond Safra, a banker and billionaire who required private nursing care for Parkinson's and other ailments. After a background check, Maher, a former Green Beret, is offered a job on Safra's personal staff. With a hospital strike looming and legal bills mounting from a visitation battle with his ex-wife regarding his oldest son, Maher ultimately accepts the job, which pays $475 a day.

Safra and his entire staff, including Maher, are in New York for an extended stay at Safra's Manhattan apartment.

According to Heidi Maher, her husband discusses leaving his position on Safra's staff before Christmas to return to his family and job in New York. He was making plans to return home that weekend.

Maher was scheduled at the last minute to work the overnight shift caring for Safra with Vivian Torrente.

Fire alarm from Safra's penthouse received at monitoring station.

Dialing the cellphone Maher gave her, Torrente calls head nurse Sonia Casiano from Safra's dressing room to ask her to call police. She informs Casiano that Maher is injured. Five more calls are made by Torrente during the next 90 minutes.

The first police officers arrive in the lobby of the building. Police begin organizing a floor by floor search for intruders.

Maher is transported to Princess Grace Hospital for treatment of stab wounds.

Passersby and neighbors begin flooding emergency phone lines with reports of seeing smoke from the building.

Torrente makes fourth call to Casiano from the cellphone. She does not mention any smoke. Safra appears calm but requests police intervention.

Smoke is escaping through the roof.

Firefighters begin battling the blaze.

Torrente, losing consciousness, makes her sixth and final call from the cellphone. Safra is heard coughing in the background.

Firefighters gain access to the locked dressing room on the top floor of the penthouse and discover bodies of Edmond Safra and Vivian Torrente.

Safra is buried in Geneva. Monaco's chief prosecutor announces that Maher confessed to starting the fire and inflicting his own stab wounds.