Coffee magnate Paul Blanchard's comfortable world is turned upside down when his old fraternity brother, Mark Morvant, threatens to expose the secret that Paul has been harboring for twenty years. He demands that Paul secure the financial and political backing of a clandestine organization called The White League, a group that he maintains is the real power in New Orleans. As his well-ordered world begins to collapse around him, Paul struggles with the moral consequences of his own past.