An L.A. cop discovers a local task force is hiding a secret that puts the residents of his childhood neighborhood in danger.

Alabama, 1972. As Billy falls for a patient at his father's mental asylum, his best friend becomes involved in a radical civil rights movement against Tuscaloosa's power elite.

Neste drama baseado em fatos reais, um jovem de apenas 14 anos vira informante do FBI e depois começa a traficar drogas durante a epidemia de crack dos anos 1980.