From a chance meeting to a tragic fallout, Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali's extraordinary bond cracks under the weight of distrust and shifting ideals.

After a plane crash were a boy is the only survivor, a childless couple adopts him and soon discovers he is something very powerful, something very dark. This small boy is the Beast and with him he carries the Beginning of the End.

When an African boy arrives by cargo ship in the port city of Le Havre, an aging shoe shiner takes pity on the child and welcomes him into his home.