History professor Michael Faraday (Jeff Bridges) lives with his ten-year-old son Grant (Spencer Clark) and is trying to come to terms with the death of his wife two years earlier. Life seems to be improving when they befriend the Langs, a family new to the neighbourhood. But the father of the family (Tim Robbins) appears to be behaving strangely and a series of lies makes Michael suspicious that all is not as it seems in their household.