A complex web of events unravels after Sugita (Hiroaki Murakami), the son of a Japanese billionaire, is found severely wounded at an abandoned Pennsylvania steel mill. Because he had been visiting the area with plans to develop it into a huge million-dollar amusement park, it is assumed that he was attacked by someone opposed to the project. But when former steelworker Barry Mikowski (Jeff Fahey) comes forward and confesses, making a statement which directly contradicts the account given by Sugita's wife (Bridget Fonda), the local police chief (J T Walsh) realises that the problem goes much, much deeper.