詹姆斯（斯科特.巴库拉 饰）和丽莎（安娜贝拉.斯依奥拉 饰）是一对人人称羡的模范夫妻，两人过著非常幸福美满的婚姻生活，；一天早上，丽莎却意外发现她丈夫赫然有着一段她毫无所知的过去--及另一个身分！ 这位社区模范公民、理想丈夫兼慈父，其实是恶名昭彰的黑道家族曼西尼家的么子乔，在12年前便因涉嫌谋杀其未婚妻而遭警方通缉，此后便消失无踪，但一位纽泽西州警探（乔治.迪朱恩扎 饰）却一直锲而不舍地追踪乔的下落，最后虽找到了他，却也令詹姆斯/乔美满的家庭面临瓦解的厄运。在法律之前，丽莎心知自己或许已来不及挽救丈夫的性命，而四周的人更是无一能躲过嫌疑！For 13 years James Stockton has been a loving father and husband to his wife and daughter. He is respected and admired by all the people in the town that he lives in. But things are going to change, it seems that James recently went on what he told his wife was a business trip. However, his wife caught him telling her a lie. She then does a little snooping and finds a picture of a girl. He tells her that she's an old girlfriend who died 14 years ago. She then asks a friend to find her, she is told that she did die 14 years ago, but her boyfriend was not James Stockton but Johnny Mancini, the son of a New Jersey gangster, who disappeared 14 years ago and was also the prime suspect in her death. Is James Johnny Mancini and did he kill her? And that is not all that is going on, some men from New Jersey have come to James' hometown and it seems that they are law enforcement officers and that James knows the lead man, but they are not arresting him, it seems that there is something that they want that they think that James has.
