都勒（塞缪尔•杰克逊 Samuel L. Jackson 饰）是一个失意的黑人商贩，为了能获得孩子的抚养权，他费力地争取到了房屋贷款。在酗酒者分享会上，滴酒不沾的他难掩心中的欢喜，言辞激动。凯文（本•阿弗莱克 Ben Affleck 饰）是一家艺术品基金会的白人律师，他曾经帮助某富豪做过慈善捐助工作。但当老人死后，他却在上司的授意下，接连清洗了基金会的老成员，此举被老人的继承人视为背叛，一纸诉状将其告上法庭。
正在此时，一场车祸让都勒和凯文相遇。因为拿错了对方的文件，两人的命运发生了改变。因为错过了约会的时间，都勒的孩子被判由妻子抚养，从此父子难得见面。而凯文也在法庭上被逼上了绝路，陷入了信任危机。这时，两人才发现彼此的对抗只会让事情更糟，但是化敌为友的路途却荆棘丛生…
John Forbes is a family man who's tired of the 9 to 5 humdrum of his job an insurance company executive. Life gets a little more exciting for him when he calls upon femme fatale Mona Stevens. Her boyfriend has embezzled from a store insured by Forbes' company and has showered her with gifts using the loot. Forbes comes to collect the ill-gotten gifts, but the boyfriend is in jail, and Forbes falls hard for Mona and begins an affair. The only problem is that MacDonald, a private dick who freelances for the insurance company, has had his eyes on Mona first. The obsessed MacDonald turns the soon-to-be-released boyfriend against Forbes.
