The narrative focuses around paroled white-supremacist who also takes a black household hostage , and has only killed a cop. Within hours of being released from 14 years of confinement at Pelican Bay State Prison,'' Garrett Tully is away from home again. When he also takes a family hostage and sees out a house off a dirt road , he thinks the Aryan Brotherhood gets his backand his victims are black. The family's patriarch, Mr. Walker, is actually a jaded ex con who hates cops so much he disavowed his or her own kid for becoming one. Seeing a despair in Tully,'' Walker refuses to call the authorities for help, inducing behavioral tensions to escalate, and grave missteps are made.