Every security has its price ... Because he was responsible for a traffic accident with a fatal outcome, a family man has to spend 7 years behind bars. The daily violence there soon causes the new inmate to switch to the camp of a gang that guarantees him protection within the prison walls. But as soon as he is free again, his former 'protectors' demand further favors. So he gets the task of neutralizing a rival gang in the streets of Southern California. A merciless fight for sheer survival begins, in which his own family also becomes a target.