Trainee Clarice Starling is an FBI. The FBI's chief of Behavioral Science has called on her to help solve a serial murder case. She must interview Dr. Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lector, a psychiatrist jailed for killing and eating various patients, to get inside the mind of Buffalo Bill, a serial killer on the loose. Starling Becomes close to Lector who helps her discover how to find Buffalo Bill, and how to find closure in her personal life. Setting is One Thing That stands out in "Silence of the Lambs." The various scenes where the novel takes place help readers imagine the events really happening. As Clarice is checking a storage unit on a rainy night in Washington DC, readers can imagine her on hands and knees, soaking wet, crawling under a storage door into a musty, dark unit. As Clarice visits Dr. Lector in his cell in to asylum, readers can imagine her heels down a dimly lit hall Clicking, inmates on bothsides, approaching Lector's cell at the end of the hallway. Setting is what brings this book to life. Perhaps the time readers will find this true, is When Clarice meets Buffalo Bill face to face, in a setting That Could very well be next door neighbors house Their.