Samuel L. Jackson Julianne Moore Edie Falco Ron Eldard William Forsythe Aunjanue Ellis Anthony Mackie Doug Aguirre Michalina Almindo Shawn Andrew Shon Blotzer Jonnie Brown Todd Carroll Dominic Colon Liza Colón-Zayas Greg D'Agostino James Deleon Colman Domingo Brian Dykstra Robert Feeley Jason Furlani Catrina Ganey Christopher Gilbertson Richard Gnolfo Alonzo F. Jones
A bruised and bloodied white woman named Brenda Martin stumbles into a Dempsey, New Jersey, emergency room, claiming that a black man stole her car with her four-year-old son in the backseat. Veteran detective Lorenzo Council is assigned to investigate the case, and despite reservations about Brenda's story, he launches an all-out search for the abducted boy. Jesse Haus, an ambitious young reporter for the local newspaper, also suspects that Brenda is hiding something, and she befriends the grief-stricken mother in an attempt to break the biggest story of her career. But as the search for the alleged carjacker intensifies, smoldering racial tensions between the predominantly black city of Dempsey and its mostly white neighbor, Gannon, threaten to explode.