Ambientada a França, el 1386, explica l'enfrontament entre el cavaller Jean de Carrouges i l'escuder Jacques LeGris, en acusar el primer al segon d'abusar de la seva dona, Marguerite de Carrouges. El Rei Carles VI decideix que la millor manera de solucionar el conflicte és un duel a mort. El qui venci serà el guanyador, però, si ho fa l'escuder, l'esposa del cavaller serà cremada com a càstig per falses acusacions.

A teenage boy reluctantly turns to the streets to earn $6,000 a month for his mother's cancer medicine and quickly discovers that street money does not come easy. When an old family friend makes him a syndicate boss, jealousy and greed immediately turn his friends against him. With pressure mounting from all sides, he must choose between saving his mother’s life and saving his own.