The Relationships Cage of Lies Puts Under Pressure

Family, marriage, and old loyalty are not the background of Cage of Lies. They are the trap.

Ashton Carter returned home after a threeyear overseas business assignment. At his homecoming banquet, a ragged, beggarlike woman rushed forward and threw her arms around his legs.

That is the spine of Cage of Lies: the people in the synopsis do not get to pretend the story started somewhere else.