Professional hitman Yosef Shapira is assigned a job to “take out” a man in his hometown, where his father, his dying mother, and his younger brother live. His father disowned his son, the hitman, long ago, knowing full well what he does for a living, but his brother and mother still love him. And even his father cannot completely erase him from his heart. The family reunion ends in tragedy. Yosif is forced to kill the son of a local “boss,” who believed him to be dead, because the son had spotted him on the street, and Yosif could under no circumstances allow the deceased’s father to find out—that would be tantamount to death.

New York, 1945. At a jazz orchestra concert in a nightclub, Jimmy—who has just returned from the front—persistently but unsuccessfully tries to strike up a conversation with a girl named Francine. The next morning, they run into each other again in the hotel lobby, where she is looking for a friend and he is trying to get another extension on his bill. When the extension is denied, Jimmy makes a run for it, dragging Francine along with him into a taxi. During their conversation, it turns out that he’s a pretty good saxophonist. Almost against her will, she ends up attending yet another one of Jimmy’s auditions...

Officer Louis Burke, a corrupt police detective, goes undercover as a convict at Harrison Prison to solve a series of murders of inmates. Behind bars, he faces the brutality of his cellmates, corrupt guards, death, and betrayal of every kind. When Burke uncovers the prison’s shocking secret, he must stage a daring escape—his last chance to break free from the clutches of hundreds of convicted thugs led by his sworn enemy, “The Conspirator.”