On the run from their fellow gypsy con-artists known as the Travellers after stealing from them, an Irish father moves his brood to suburban Louisiana where they assume the identity of a well-to-do family after they are accidentally killed. The family sets out to con the neighbors in order to integrate into the lives of the straight and narrow "buffers" and become one of them. His wife, newly released from prison, is distressed to find him reconsidering and possibly rejecting their whole grifter lifestyle. And while they must convince their new neighbors that they are one of them, they must also convince themselves.