Big-city lawyer Hank Palmer returns to his childhood home where his estranged father, the town's judge, is suspected of murder. He sets out to discover the truth and along the way reconnects with the family he walked away from years before.

Fred Madison is a saxophonist who finds a video tape on his doorstep that shows the interior of his house. He becomes convinced that someone has broken in and calls the police. He finds another videotape showing him killing his wife. The police arrest for murdering his wife. In prison, he inexplicably morphs into a young man named Pete Dayton and begins living a completely different life. When Pete is released, his and Fred's paths begin to cross...

Two brothers, Leon and Bobby, are members of the street gang in Brooklyn known as the Deuces. When their brother was killed by a drug overdose a few years earlier, the gang became determined to keep drugs off their block. Another more vicous gang known as the Vipers becomes a threat to Leon and Bobby's efforts. The Deuces are determined to do whatever is necessary to keep drugs off their block even if that means dying.