After a mysterious year-long absence ex-gangster, SAM (Sung Kang, The Fast & The Furious 3) returns to Los Angeles determined to find redemption for his past. He soon becomes intertwined with his old mentor DON (Tom Bower, Die Hard 2), a retired gangster and VERA (Kelly Hu, X Men2, Scorpion King), the lover he abandoned. Sam is soon drawn back into the shadowy world he left behind where he now finds himself being hunted by a ruthless hit man, LEON (Russell Wong, Romeo Must Die) as he enters a world of impossible desires, loneliness and isolation. Can Sam undo his mistakes before losing all that he came back to save?