Lawyer Claire Kubik (Ashley Judd) and her woodworker husband Tom (James Caviezel) find their idyllic life in Marin County, California shattered when, during a Christmas shopping excursion in San Francisco's Union Square, San Francisco, he is captured by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation and charged with the murders of nine villagers in a remote village in El Salvador in 1988. Claire learns Tom's real name is Ronald Chapman, and she is shocked to discover he was a covert military operative serving in the United States Marine Corps and has been on the run for the past twelve years.