Three stories of human treachery are given an unexpected link in this drama from Icelandic filmmaker Baltasar Kormákur. Holt (Forest Whitaker) is an insurance investigator who is sent to Minnesota to look into a bus accident; the bus seems to have had significantly more passengers after it crashed than it had when it left the station, and Holt, posing as a police detective, needs to know who is telling the truth and who is attempting to cash in on the tragedy. Later, Holt is back on the job, when a badly burned body is found in a wrecked car, and the ID on the corpse indicates the victim was a small-time con artist with a police record. The victims sister, Isold (Julia Stiles), claims that her brothersaccident happened after his gas tank was drained and he was struggling to make his way home on a stormy night, but Holt isnt buying it; and Isolds husband, Fred (Jeremy Renner), and son, Thor (Alfred Harmsworth), dont seem especially trustworthy. Finally, a man and a woman struggle