Ex-Prosecutor Joseph Oda is serving a life sentence for the untimely death of his wife's lover and spent his first three years in prison earning respect and security in the inmate community. All of that seems lost when Joseph is brutally attacked and finds himself in the middle of a brawl between an unknown attacker and a man he'd never seen before.
Sebastian Castellanos is a weary widower serving a short sentence for drug related charges and is the only person who helped Joseph in his time of need. Joseph develops a fascination with the surprisingly noble man and sees him as a valuable (and possibly his only) ally. He originally intends to keep Castellanos close for protection but as he gets to know the man behind the scars and rage, he wonders what he's really after.