When Rose is arrested for assaulting a girl at her high school, the eighteen year old is given one last chance to turn her life around. Sentenced to community service at a local boxing gym, she meets Cathy, a rough, old school trainer, who reluctantly takes the wayward teen under her wing. For Ila, it seems everyday she deals with her brother's troubles with the law, her father's depression and her mother's constant pressure to succeed in her studies. But she has one escape from the struggles of living up to her immigrant parent's expectations, martial arts. It is her passion and her path. The two are about to embark on a journey that will ultimately bring them together and entwine their lives. The world is their battleground, and life is their opponent.