Truth tale of a controversial honeytrap at the heart of the 1992 police investigation right into the murder of a young mom in London. Taking a look at the difficult as well as poisonous sex-related national politics of the very early '90s and the police's fascination with the wrong guy, Deceit goes into an inefficient world, where a female undercover officer, codename 'Lizzie James', is asked to become sexual bait for a suspected killer.