Evan Casher's career as a documentary filmmaker is booming and his relationship with his new girlfriend, Carrie, couldn't be better. On an urgent phone call from his mother, he makes a trip home to Austin where he finds his mother brutally murdered, and narrowly escapes an attempt on his own life. Spirited away from the scene by an enigmatic mercenary with an agenda of his own, Evan is confronted with a shocking fact: his entire life has been little more than a carefully constructed lie.