James Carpenter

Wendell is trying to make peace with his earthly deterioration in the face of late-stage cancer. His son Josh is fighting it, fleeing it, denying it. After a five year estrangement, father and son are now thrown together in a remote cabin enveloped in the vibrant, buzzing, crawling redwood forest of Northern California. As Wendell forgives himself of his own inadequacies, Josh releases years of pain and anger, borne from living under the rigid principles of his father, a renowned Buddhist teacher who for decades pretended to be anything but the deeply flawed, selfish man he really was....but is he still? Human connection, obligation, illusion, enlightenment, love and fear -- it's all up for grabs in this meditative, probing, tender story of inevitability.

サンフランシスコ市警の刑事スコットは、交渉人(ネゴシエーター)として数々の事件を解決してきたが、無鉄砲な行動のために署内では厄介者扱いされ、恋人とも破局寸前にまで陥っていた。そんなある日、宝石強奪犯のコーダによって相棒の刑事が殺害されてしまう。怒りに震えるスコットだったが、署長はそんな彼を新人ネゴシエーターのケヴィンの教育係に任命する。この命令を不服に思う彼だったが、後に二人でコーダを追い詰めていく。