When the sister of wealthy young socialite Avery Chasten is kidnapped for a $2 million ransom, Avery and four of his privileged friends hatch a desperate plan: drug and abduct retired mob boss Charlie Barret, then use him as leverage to recover the money through his underworld contacts. They restrain Barret in a palatial Long Island estate and, to prove they mean business, one of the conspirators cuts off his own finger as a show of commitment — a gesture that rapidly unravels what little control they had. As the night stretches on, Barret — cool, calculating, and clearly the most dangerous person in the room — begins to manipulate the increasingly panicked young men from his chair, extracting information and quietly orchestrating his own rescue. Meanwhile, his loyal fixer Lono Veccio tears through the city's criminal underworld to track his boss down, and the kidnapping plot begins to collapse under the weight of shifting loyalties, hidden secrets, and the terrifying realization that one of their own circle may have orchestrated the original kidnapping all along.