Storyville

Cray Fowler (James Spader), the scion of a powerful and wealthy political family from St. Alban's Parish, Louisiana, has his budding career put in jeopardy when he's videotaped in an erotic sexual situation with a Vietnamese martial arts instructor at the Happy Dragon Studio. When the woman's father is found fatally stabbed, she is arrested and Cray returns to being a trial lawyer and defends her against a prosecuting attorney, who is also his ex-lover. But during the trial a plot is uncovered that involves an unsavory and shameful secret in his family's history, which he decides to bring out in the open.