Situated on Philadelphia fictitious neighborhood, God's Pocket, Philip Seymour Hoffman plays Mickey Scarpato, whose crazy stepson Leon dies in an accident during construction course. Mickey tries to cover this death and bury the body, but when a local reporter starts snooping around, things start to go wrong, as the woman Mickey starts logically ask questions about what happened. The protagonist is trapped in a life or death matter composed of a body can not be buried and a wife who can not meet this all together and a debt we can not pay.

Based on the same name novel written by Pete Dexter.