How many teenage boys awake from a gang initiation with an ironic tattoo still bleeding on their skin? Retribution, is the word that connects Jason Sparks to a fateful night that leaves one man dead and another serving a self-imposed sentence. Its haunting memories are the very shackles that hold him to a personal prison. But the personal prison doesn't seem like all that horrible of a place to stay. With fate twisted by an unseen hand, a routine trip to downtown Denver, Colorado forces Jason to make a life-changing decision: to come to the aid of a helpless policeman and risk being caught and tried for murder, or to turn a blind eye as the policeman of the past did to him as a boy.