An oil baron and a farmer standoff after the water on his farm is poisoned by her company.

Two young artists use love as a safety net against the fear and pain in their lives in order to propel them deeper into their art.

Mick O’Brien is a young Chicago street thug torn between a life of petty crime and the love of his girlfriend. But when the heist of a local drug dealer goes tragically wrong Mick is sentenced to a brutal juvenile prison where violence is a rite of passage and respect is measured in vengeance.