JJ, aka John Shaft Jr., may be a cyber security expert with a degree from MIT, but to uncover the truth behind his best friend’s untimely death, he needs an education only his dad can provide. Absent throughout JJ’s youth, the legendary locked-and-loaded John Shaft agrees to help his progeny navigate Harlem’s heroin-infested underbelly.

Guy Miller is on parolee and trying to rehabilitate his life, but circumstances bring him back to the dangerous Atlanta. And he must live up to his reputation as one of the slickest street operators in a deadly race against the clock.