Ben Archer, a former member of the Marseilles Mafia, returns to Los Angeles to be near his wife Cynthia and their son Nicholas. He’s determined to follow the straight and narrow and to at last lead a normal life.

Cynthia, a social worker at the immigration service, is upset by the fate of a little Chinese girl, Kim. She decides to take her in for a night before giving her to her adoptive parents. Ben and Cynthia are unaware that Kim represents a grave danger for their family. She is in fact the daughter of Sun Quan, the bloodthirsty chief of the Chinese Triad who’ll soon find out where she’s hiding…