Vietnam veteran Walter Franklin (Nicolas Cage) lives alone with his wife (Kadee Strickland) in a Victorian house on a quiet island in Louisiana. Walter hires local handyman Buddy (Luke Benward) to fix his fence, but when a ferocious hurricane strikes the island Buddy finds himself trapped at the Franklins residence. As tensions rise, the night takes an expected turn that leads to murder. With Detective Jones (Kelsey Grammer) leading the investigation, Buddy is forced to prove his innocence while recalling the twisted sequence of events that took place on Grand Isle.