Lamin Michaels learned at his mother's knee the importance of chasing paper, so it's no surprise he gets into the drug game when he's just a teenager. When he meets Zion, a product of the New York City foster care and prison system, Lamin knows that he has meet the perfect partner in crime. Together, they build a huge narcotics empire. Then, Lamin falls hard for a beautiful girl named Lucky. Lamin and Zion get together to build a narcotics empire, an enterprise that begins to come apart when Lamin falls in love and decides to go into a legitimate entertainment business and Zion becomes the target of a corruption scandal involving extortion, money laundering, and murder.