Can we ever really leave our past behind sums up what this movie is all about. We can try and create a new life, and maybe even succeed in the eyes of observers, but our past is part of us and remains forever with us. Tom (Viggo Mortensen) is living a quiet life with his wife and two children, a teenage son and a young daughter, and becomes involved in an unexpected event which thrusts him into the National limelight. He is exposed and his past threatens to destroy the new life he has created.