In the early morning hours of May 20,1995, Tatianna McNair, a beautiful and successful entrepreneur, who happens to be a transsexual, is brutally murdered in her lavish, southwest Philly apartment. Her cousin, Louis Lee Freeman, a black homicide detective in the Philadelphia Police Department, is in charge of the case. Now that the blood of kin has been spilled, his desire for revenge has replaced the rule of law.