Rickman (with American accent) and Walker (with English) play a wealthy couple out to spend a weekend at Walker's fancy family cottage on an island in Maine. When they pick up a handsome stranger (Reedus) by the roadside, and later let him into the house, their marriage gradually comes unhinged as their loyalties and desires are put to the test.

Director Coleman Howard assuredly builds a sense of menace, happily steering the audience through a sea of red herrings to the don't-give-it-away-to-your-friends ending. The movie's sense of eerie playfulness should tickle the fancies of the same crowd which embraced The Usual Suspects.