Thirty miles outside of Dallas, in Royse City, Texas, Fire Capt. Robert Poynter and his young wife, Chacey, enjoy an idyllic small-town life, but that's shattered when a dramatic physical transformation leads to infidelity and a dead body.

Kosta and Lisa Fotopoulos are a Daytona Beach power couple in 1989. Kosta owns a bar and hires sultry Deidre Hunt as a waitress. Soon, a torrid affair, a deadly home invasion and a videotaped murder all result from a tailspin of greed and seduction.