A young city homicide detective (Jonathan Schaech, THAT THING YOU DO) flees to the country with his wife to start a new life. In their new town, his wife is brutally assaulted by a man she believes to be the son of the town sheriff (James Caan). When it's discovered that the sheriff's son was murdered on the same night of the assault, the young detective suspects that he and his wife are being implicated in a conspiracy and sets out to solve the mystery with the help of the sheriff.