Hell's Kitchen is a rough place to spend your childhood, but to the boys living there every day, it is simply home. Finding their way through childhood troubles, nothing seems to be able to touch Shakes (Jason Patrick) and his friends until one day when a prank goes terribly wrong. The boys end up in a detention facility and find out what true brutality is at the hands of the guards there. They fight with all their determination to keep sane and to stay friends through their ordeal, never speaking of it until one night when one of the group meets up with his previous tormentor, a sad, pathetic man, and shoots him in cold blood. Can the old gang get together and keep their friend from going to prison for what seems like divine justice?