Wisper, a successful black businessman and bar owner, lives with his family in an affluent white neighborhood. A self-made man and proud of it, Wisper has a personal photographer who follows him everywhere. Everywhere, that is, except when he visits his mistress, Melonie. One night, he comes home from Melonie's place to find his wife and children murdered and, despite his alibi, the cops consider Wisper a prime suspect.