Carlo, a former mobster, is abducted by five privileged young men desperate to raise a $2 million ransom to save the sister of a friend. As Carlo plays mind games, however, his captors splinter -- each wondering whether one of their own had a hand in the crime.

In 1962 in Montgomery, Alabama, State Attorney Richmond Flowers, Sr. is one of few willing to fight racial injustices even if it costs him his family's peace.

In a small town a young woman is murdered. The police assumes it's an accident, but friends of the murdered woman don't believe that. When they search for evidence, the police threatens them not to meddle in the investigation. When they are closing in on the truth, they find themselves in the dark world of slave trade and exotic animal smuggling.

A young painter succeeds portraying scenes of violence and lust connected to real crimes that plague Los Angeles.