Travelling carnival owner Ike (Armand Assante) wants his beautiful wife Divana (Dagmara Dominczyk) murdered. He hires small time grifter, Archie (Norman Reedus), to do the job, but when Archie falls for Divana, the murder is faked and Archie attempts to take the money anyway--only to find that he was double-crossed and set up for the crime. Believing Divana to be dead, he flees to New Orleans, only to bump into both Divana and Ike, and discover that he is merely a pawn in a much larger game.