Sixteen-year-old JASON CLARKE wants a future, but his father ROBERT couldn't care less. Depressed after the recent death of Jason's mother, Robert has chosen the bottle over his two children and without support, Jason is quickly falling to the temptation and violence of the inner-city. 

That is until he meets LILY EVANS, a beautiful and intelligent girl who has just enrolled in Jason's school. The two hit it off, as Jason sees in Lily qualities he wants to emulate. 

But when a brawl Jason's entangled in results in one of his friends getting stabbed, Jason finds himself swept up in a series of escalating gang confrontations, spinning out of control.