A brilliant thriller-drama with surprising twists and turns. An attorney named Gavin Banek (Ben Affleck) collides with a car driven by a salesman named Doyle Gipson (Samuel L. Jackson) while in a rush to make a court appointment. Gipson was also in a hurry for a court appointment involving his children's custody which he misses because the attorney leaves the scene, deserting him without transportation. Thus begins a cat-and-mouse game between the two men which would lead to a certain disaster(s)...