When a robbery goes awry, the bandits all end up in a puddle of blood and only one (Mekhi Phifer) lives and goes to jail for five years. Upon his release, the girlfriend (Angelina Jolie) wants her new boyfriend (Johnny Whitworth) to kill him. Only trouble is the boy friend knows that the fault was not the ex-con's and can't bring himself to do the town. Meanwhile the ex-con tries to turn his life around by becoming a boxer and training under a former heavyweight contender (William Forsythe).