在无数其他人中，四个小镇男孩被詹姆斯·惠特利绑架，他是一个精神错乱，眼睛发热的精神病患者。当孩子们逃走，他被捕时，他为使孤儿和他们死去的亲生父母团聚而做出的离奇的追求陷入了僵局。二十年后，惠特利在一场监狱火灾中逃跑，决定完成他的使命。拉森警探，惠特利以前的受害者之一，现在是一名警察，由于公正，被从案件中除名，留下他的伴侣和情人，肖特威尔警探来解决这个案件。在愤怒和赎罪的刺激下，拉森警探独自追捕这个坚定的精神病患者，结果还是落入了他小时候逃过的陷阱。
Among countless others, four small-town boys are kidnapped by James Whitley, a deranged, warm-eyed psychopath. His grotesque pursuit to reunite orphaned children with their deceased birth parents is gridlocked when the boys escape and he is arrested. Twenty years later, Whitley flees during a prison fire and decides to see his mission through. Detective Larson, one of Whitley's prior victims - and now a cop - is removed from the case due to impartiality leaving his partner and lover, Detective Shotwell to solve the case. Fueled by rage and a chance of redemption, Detective Larson chases the steadfast psychopath on his own, only to fall back into the same trap he once escaped as a child.
