Written by Becky Johnston, the film is about a former professional golfer who fakes his own death and assumes a new identity in order to escape his life of failure.

Trapped in an unfulfilling FedEx floor manager job in Florida, he finds little comfort in his failed first marriage or his current relationship with his girlfriend Mina.

Along the way, he meets Charlotte Fitzgerald, a troubled young thief slumped beside his motel swimming pool from a near-lethal dose of morphine-infused cough syrup.

Charlotte is also traveling under a false identity – that of her twin sister who has paranoid schizophrenia, Michaela, nicknamed "Mike" – and has fled her home in North Carolina.

As Mike and Arthur, they sleep in separate beds, but they have highly personal conversations as their true selves – Charlotte and Wallace.

Mike and Arthur dress up as they reach Terre Haute Country Club to meet owner Chuck Willoughby.

The wallet that Arthur has taken from the police is of Beauregard Tully, a truck driver who lives in Newport News, Virginia, with his wife, Rosita, and their two sons.

Arthur says to Mike that he had followed her into people’s houses, wore their clothes, slept in their beds but never tried to cancel someone’s life, as she had done by stealing the dead man’s wallet, thus disabling his identification upon death.

The role-playing games lose their appeal, revealing that Arthur and Mike are two hearts that have been hurt by life's challenges.

The website's critics consensus reads, "Despite the natural charisma of its leads, Arthur Newman does little with its intriguing setup, and the result is bland and unconvincing.