Set around the issue of the U.S. real-estate market and its various casualties, Frank Hunter and his sultry wife Lana hire disgraced Los Angeles property broker Jack Woodman to discreetly market and sell their Malibu villa. Fired from a top broker firm by real-estate mogul Ron Glass and framed by his menacing, drug-addled son, Aaron, Woodman soon finds himself in a world of double crosses, mistaken identity and crooked deals, the type that are literally life or death.