Jack is a tragic character; an angst-ridden college student whose poor judgment leads to a murder, and whose inability to act endangers the lives of his friends and family. On a dreary night in Boston, Jack inadvertently lets three gang members into his apartment. Within minutes, Jack’s roommate is accidentally killed by one of the gang members in an argument over money. The gang members flee the scene, leaving Jack and his best friend Steve bound and gagged on the apartment floor. Jack’s father, a case-hardened cop, is afraid the gang will come after his son and Steve, as they are now witnesses to a homicide. When Jack disobeys his father’s orders and sneaks out to a college party, the brutal desperation of the gang becomes fully evident, and another tragedy takes place. Now convinced that the gang will stop at nothing to harm his son, Jack’s father moves his family into a relative’s cottage on Cape Cod, until things ‘cool down.” Unfortunately, Jack cannot escape the fate he has made for himself, and a guilty conscience combined with his father’s growing paranoia seems likely to tear his family apart. Jack’s world is becoming a feverish nightmare, one that he fears he will never escape. In the end, he will have to come to terms with a dark secret, as well as face the inhumane killers he knows are coming.