Bryant Norris

A St. Louis cop, Mike Braxton (Sam Jones), receives an urgent call for help from his brother Tony (Nick Cassavetes), a small time thief in Los Angeles. Mike rushes to LA and finds that his brother has been murdered and his brother Tony's girlfriend gunned down right in front of him. Mike quickly learns Tony was a courier for an arms smuggler, Simon Stone (John Russell). When Mike meets Stone's lawyer, Samantha Richardson (Vanessa Williams), the two team up to bring down Stone's arms smuggling empire. However, Mike's infatuation with Samantha keeps putting them in greater danger.

Everyone is vulnerable in this high stakes game of mistrust. The charisma of the record business unravels, with all of its treachery, consuming everything in its vicious path. The record industry has become a jungle and survival of the fittest and dirtiest is now the mandate. Love, lust and power rule as gangster and the criminal element rip the jaws of justice, dictating who lives and who dies. It's all about payback... it's all about Retribution!