Joe is troubled in his search for success, so he teams up with his friends Danny and Jake to embark on a life of crime. Their incompetence is quickly revealed as their attempt to pull off a string of robberies ends in disaster. Discouraged and hungry for a life in the big-time, Joe takes a tip from a street hustler and attempts to join the local crime syndicate. Much to his surprise, not only is he accepted into the crime family, he is immediately taken under the wing of the Mob boss and is quickly dispatched on assignments of increasing difficulty. Once his loyalty and abilities are proven, he is given an assignment small-time thieves only dream about. Joe recruits his old buddies from the neighborhood for a large scale robbery only to find that the whole job is a set-up. Joe's dream is twisted into a nightmare. His search for loyalty and respect transforms into a lesson on betrayal and murder as he struggles to find a way out alive.