Charlie Rankin (Stephen Dorff) is out of prison but not out of danger. Indebted to a man who saved his life behind bars (Willem Dafoe), Charlie must now have to carry out a murder to settle a score. Unexpectedly, he meets Florence (Michelle Monaghan), a mysterious and beautiful lost soul who sees the good within Charlie's dark shell. When the hit goes bad, Charlie soon finds himself in over his head and must figure out how to settle his debts, discover his own identity, embrace a romance with Florence and find the road to redemption.