It's 1978 and David Slaney has been in prison for five years for dealing drugs. Roy Patterson, a Canadian police detective, teams up with Slaney to arrest Brian Hearn. Hearn is Slaney's former friend and partner in the drug trade who abandoned him at the time, and Slaney is now out for revenge. In addition, the American narcotics brigade in the person of KC Williams is after Hearn.