A mafia boss and his family are relocated to a sleepy town in France under the Witness Protection Program after breaking the sacred code and snitching on his crew. However, despite Agent Stansfield’s (Tommy Lee Jones) best efforts to keep them in line, Fred Blake (Robert DeNiro), his wife Maggie (Michelle Pfeiffer) and their children can’t help but resort to old habits by handling all their problems the “family” way. But the Mob doesn’t forget and, as his old crew closes in on theirlocation, chaos ensues and old scores are settled as Fred is caught in the middle of a life-or-death showdown between his two families.