Connor and Alex's drug use had taken them farther from white bread suburbia than they ever wanted to go. Struggling to keep their marriage and their sanity in tact while also feeding their addictions proves futile at best. When their fragile world collides with the Baltimore underworld of pushers and drug dealers they realize they'll be lucky to make it out alive. Baltimore's back streets were controlled by various gangs but one man aspired to organize them. Lil' Earl and his #1 Captain Eddy Grant were making progress with the help of Baltimore's Vice Mayor, Arthur Ford. Ford has aligned himself with a supplier of almost pure Afghan heroin but the price he will pay in the long run will be high. Vasily Tokarev, an ex - KGB leader, can provide all the product that Baltimore and the rest of the United States could ever consume but his expectations are high and his rules are solid. When crossed people die and when angered people die badly. In the long run everyone is searching for redemption but the road is rough, crooked and filled with pitfalls. And sometimes the going up isn't worth the coming down.