Robert De Niro, Edward Norton and Mila Jovovich star in this psychological crime drama set in a maximum-security prison. Soon-to-retire parole officer Jack Mabry (De Niro) is assigned to review the case of convicted arsonist Gerald 'Stone' Creeson (Norton). Eligible for early release if he can convince Jack that he has reformed, Stone will stop at nothing to influence the older man's decision. The line between lawmaker and lawbreaker soon becomes dangerously blurred as the two men struggle to break free of their troubled pasts and their darkest impulses.