Everything that Manhattan criminal defense attorney Sam Tahar has achieved stems from a single lie he told in a moment of weakness. As a law school student, Sam (who grew up Muslim as Samir) became fast friends with Jewish student Samuel Baron. The two were inseparable until the alluring Nina, torn between the men, ultimately chose Samuel. Determined as ever to make something of himself, Samir adopted Samuel’s life story and origins for his own. Twenty years later, the three meet again, and all their fates hang in the balance as their tangled love triangle collides headlong with the complex realities of life at the start of the 21st century.