Financial analyst Michael Boll (James Spader) is young, smart, successful and engaged to the perfect woman. Then he befriends Alex (Rob Lowe), a handsome drifter who lives by no rules, who begins to influence every aspect of Michael's professional and personal life. At first, Michael enjoys his new adventure and is empowered by the advice Alex offers, but soon, he's drawn into a dark world of theft, sex, voyeurism and murder.