On his 16th birthday, Freddy is given a Magnum .44, a few bullets and orders to take out his mentor's rival, a rehabilitated gangster. Will he succeed or "die like a man" with a gun in his hand?

Set in the heart of a rapidly gentrifying west Los Angeles neighborhood still reeling from decades of guns and gang violence across the four corners near Venice, a working-class single mom desperately tries to wean her 17 year-old son Freddy away from a veteran gangster who has become a father figure to him. "Die Like a Man" explores the rites of passage and codes of masculinity that are at the forefront of our current era's zeitgeist, as well as the acceleration of gentrification and its effect on communities in LA today.