 In Millowbrook, Indiana, the mild Tom Stall owns a bar and has a calm life with his beloved wife Edie Stall, his teenager son Jack and his little daughter Sarah. His life turns upside-down when her kills two cold blood killers in his bar to protect his waitress, becoming a local hero and being showed in the front page of the news and on TV. The mobster Carl Fogarty comes to the town calling him Joey Cusack and telling that he was a former hit man. When Carl and his men threaten his family, Tom defends them, and violence is released in a chain reaction.