WHAT IF ACHIEVING THE GREATEST GOOD REQUIRED YOU TO DO SOMETHING TERRIBLY WRONG?

Jonathan Poe is a philosophy professor at Harvard, who is wracked with survivor's guilt after losing his wife and two daughters in a tragic accident. On the brink of suicide, he inadvertently commits an "ethical" crime that sparks a life-altering question: since he no longer fears death, is he now free to do the "dirty work" of society that no one else will do?

Poe carefully stalks his next victims, but things go askew and he yearns for a new route to happiness — only to learn that it is likely too late to escape the consequences of his earlier actions. When these begin to threaten not only his own safety, but the lives of those he holds most dear, Poe must decide once and for all what course of action might bring about the "greatest good."