After losing their house to foreclosure, Edwin and his wife, Mallory, abandon their artistic lives and move to Richmond, Virginia. This fresh start proves challenging when Edwin is hired as an entry-level corporate insurance employee and is paired with a new field representative named Anton Spiros, who hates their company's role in the exploitation of laborers. Eventually, Spiros's erratic behavior and sense of justice envelop the two men in a dangerous scheme to avenge the working class.

While Edwin tries to stop Spiros from exacting violent revenge, his marriage stretches to a breaking point. Combining love, death, and kidnapping, this story's surprising and suspenseful climax asks the question how far will someone go to determine his place in life.