Working-class kid Luke McNamara (Joshua Jackson) attends Yale with his best friend, Will (Hill Harper). Luke jumps at the chance to join the Skulls, an elite secret society, seeing it as a springboard to success. But instead, it's the start of a series of sinister events. When Will dies of an apparent suicide, Luke suspects that Caleb Mandrake (Paul Walker), the son of the chairman of the Skulls (Craig T. Nelson), may be involved.