While growing up on the streets of Philadelphia, Theodore King learned how to manipulate people through violence and fear, and now he controls the city. After learning that one of his men, Aaron Howell, has been working with the authorities, King brutally murders him and displays his mutilated body as an example of what happens when someone betrays Philadelphia's most feared and powerful man. But with his last breath, Aaron put a curse on King that drags his younger brother Samuel into a dangerous situation. Philadelphia is called, "the city of brotherly love," but the death of a man's other brother brings out nothing but violence, hate, and something much darker.