Pullman stars as Mike Max, a hugely successful Hollywood producer whose films are state-of-the-art, violent thrillers. Violence has made Mike a rich man and given his wife Paige (McDowell) a lifestyle any woman would die for. Gabriel Byrne is Ray Bering,a surveillance expert engaged in a top secret government project. Ray's project could cut police response time by 200 percent using a network of hidden cameras to constantly view Los Angeles. In short, this project is meant to bring an end to violence. Each man traffics in images of violence buy when Ray's cameras record Mike's brutal abduction, their opposite but strangely similar lives converge. This scenario turns into a conspiracy and a mystery and confronts violence through many avenues of its cast of characters.