All her life, Hope has dreamed of becoming a lawyer and one day helping her people out of ghetto oppression. By some uncanny fate, Hope meets the handsome thug, Life, in the midst of his desperate attempts to elude a massive police manhunt. Their brief encounter leads to a liaison of lust.

Life is a career criminal who desires to get out of the dope game and go legitimate. However, he finds himself in a deadly game of cat and mouse with a crooked cop determined to bring him down.