When her father unexpectedly falls terminally ill, exotic dancer Jessica "Jesse" Brown returns home for the first time in more than a decade. Her father's dying wish - that she take over as head of Mount Olive Baptist Church - turns her life and her family's life upside down.

The story of a group of friends whose devotion to each other is tested when one of them is raped, and another one is murdered at a weekend party. Now they are forced to take the law into their own hands.