High school teacher Will Gerard (Nicolas Cage) lives a life of content domesticity with his beautiful wife Laura (January Jones) until one night’s horrific events turns their world upside when Laura is left for dead after being violently attacked.

As Laura lays helpless in hospital with Will waiting anxiously at her bedside, he is approached by a well-dressed stranger (Guy Pearce) who offers to dispense immediate justice to Laura’s attacker and save the couple from a traumatic trial. Confused and distraught, Will accepts the stranger’s proposal but soon learns that justice comes at a price…