Jimmy (Sean Penn), Dave (Tim Robbins) and Sean (Kevin Bacon) were best friends in childhood. However, an incident when Dave was 10 years old changed their innocent childhood and friendship. Dave was kidnapped and sexually abused when he was still young. This humiliating experience changed Dave's life. He became more and more alienated from others, and the friendship between the three of them slowly melted away. The three of them went their separate ways, but they reconnected because Jimmy's daughter was murdered. Because the person in charge of this case happened to be Sean, who was already a detective at this time. Faced with the murder of his friend's daughter, he was anxious to find the real murderer, but unexpectedly found that all the evidence pointed to the once close partner-Dave. The relationship became tense, and the friendship in the past and the opposition now were pulling the hearts of each party.