When Chance (Brian Presley) returns home after five years in jail he is determined to escape his past start a new life and make peace with his father (Ed Harris) who is the head of the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang and serving a life sentence for murder. Upon his release his dreams of a crime-free future begin to disintegrate when he is forced to assume his best friend's outrageous debt to a local mobster. Despite being thrust back into a world of organised fighting drug dealing and ties to corrupt police agents Chance falls in love with Pearl (Taraji P. Henson) and the prospect of living a normal life seems almost within reach..........but will he be able to escape the crimes of his father and his past.