Gil Oldfield is a Financial Advisor by day, FM radio DJ by night, who lives in New Jersey. One night at the radio station, he gets a call from his son, who is concerned about a serious injury Gil's wife Marta has sustained, allegedly at the hands of Gil. Unable to make sense of the jumbled conversation, Gil eventually heads home well after midnight to an empty house and gets a phone call from the local police. He dutifully obeys their request for him to come down to the police station, thinking he would be able to take Marta home. However, to his surprise, he is arrested in connection with her injury. After being released he begins to discover how each facet of his life has been impacted - he finds himself homeless, jobless, penniless, and virtually friendless. And he now faces criminal charges for a crime he did not commit, while his kids and nearly all of his friends are convinced of his guilt without investigating any of the facts. With no other choice but to take each day at a time, eventually obtaining a job for which he is overqualified and underpaid, and obtaining a place to live, he also begins collecting evidence of his innocence. In the process, he continues to learn not only the extent of his fall from grace amongst his old community of friends, but who was behind the debacle, and more importantly, why Marta hatched the plot in the first place. A vast conspiracy that stretches back a number of years is discovered that has religious fanaticism at its root, and is enabled by that very fanaticism and the religious sect that practices it. But will the full truth of what happened the night he received that fateful call from his son ever be known?