A halfway house for men just out of prison opens in a safe, middle-class neighborhood. The occupants are a repentant child molester, a beautiful transvestite, a heroin-addicted ex-high-school-football hero, an obsessed gangbanger, a dying house manager, a brutal killer, and a released prison lifer who will do anything to return – and they’re all caught halfway between freedom and hell. As the neighborhood’s protest outside the house intensifies, tension inside the house escalates – and then explodes…