The heroic story of a dictator who risks his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed.

Following the death of his employer and mentor, Bumpy Johnson, Frank Lucas establishes himself as the number one importer of heroin in the Harlem district of Manhattan. He does so by buying heroin directly from the source in South East Asia and he comes up with a unique way of importing the drugs into the United States. Partly based on a true story.

The lives of three men who were childhood friends are shattered when one of them suffers a family tragedy.