Life on the mean streets of L.A. is tough for Mik and his Greek-born mother, but he has a dream and he's on his way to realising it. His luck changes the day he walks into a crime scene. He and a young Mexican woman are grabbed as hostages in the crime heist. He's seen it a million times before, but when it happens to him it's as scary as hell. In the ensuing police shoot-out Mik wonders if he'll come out of this alive. Has he got the right stuff? In the end, there are three bodies. Will his be one of them?