A streetwise man flees South Central Los Angeles, heading to the suburbs and his lottery-winner uncle and cousin, to avoid a neighborhood thug with a grudge who has just escaped from prison.

A hyper-vigilant employee of the department of public safety, while training his young female replacement, has to track down a missing girl whom he is convinced is connected to a paroled sex offender he is investigating.

When a dedicated police officer is murdered, his father goes on a hunt for the people responsible.