After tragic events, Mason Taylor flees Mississippi and becomes a civil rights activist, while John Shaw becomes a rogue New York city police officer. They cross paths and attempt to take each other down for possible crimes committed. Mason is building up the neighborhood with his organization called the NEGROES {Neighborhood Economic Growth Reform of Establishments Society}, while his younger brother Simon sells heroin there, causing a reverse effect. From Happiness To Homicide is a compelling account of racism, police brutality, and drug abuse in the 60's. The assassinations of JFK, RFK, Malcolm X, MLK, plus the civil rights movement, Vietnam war, and organizations like the Black Panthers, and Ku Klux Klan made it one of the most turbulent decades in U.S. history.