A down-and-out private eye (Treat Williams) gets too close to the wife (Virginia Madsen) of a rich man (Richard Masur) soon found dead.

When reformed gambler Lucky falls victim to a tax scam, he returns to playing poker to make the money back while his family struggles to make ends meet.

An evening of TV programming is interrupted by breaking news: in Charleston, South Carolina, two Coast Guard personnel and two members of a local news team have been taken hostage…