Matt Damon stars in the movie as Bill Baker, an unemployed oil worker from Stillwater, Oklahoma who flies to Marseille, France to visit his imprisoned daughter Allison (Abigail Breslin). Allison has been tried and convicted of killing her girlfriend, Lina, and while she has served four years of her sentence, she is not ready to give up on proving her innocence. Her history with her dad is fraught, as he has a history of drug use, a criminal record, and has mostly been an absentee father, but she relies on him to get a note to her lawyer (Anne Le Ny) when she learns about a witness who may be able to support her story.
