When a vicious mobster bumps off a transplanted Kentuckian living in the Windy City, his cop brother, Truman (Patrick Swayze), seeks legal retribution. But Truman's older brother, Briar (Liam Neeson), has other ideas and heads from rural Appalachia to Chicago's mean streets. Will Truman choose his allegiance to the law, or side with the bloodthirsty Briar, who engages in backwoods-style justice? Helen Hunt co-stars in this vigilante thriller.