Paul Lamont, a corrections officer and law student, leads a comfortable if culturally bankrupt, middle-class existence. Lamont's marriage is already in trouble when he bails out a mysterious Haitian, Jean Baptiste, in the belief that Baptiste has been wrongly accused. Baptiste insinuates himself in Lamont's life and leads him on a journey of discovery. Lamont then finds that acts of conscience can have unforeseen consequences.

• Giancarlo Esposito
• Regina Taylor
• Isaach de Bankolé
• Ron Brice
• O.L. Duke
• Novella Nelson
• Shiek Mahmud-Bey
• Laurence Mason