Detectives probe an undercover agent about a colleague's murder, unraveling a tangled web of gangsters, cops, soldiers, and spouses caught in a desperate struggle to outrun darkness.

An intricate story unfolds when an undercover agent is interrogated by two detectives looking to solve the murder of their colleague. A seemingly simple case spirals out of control, pitting cheating gangsters against crooked cops, ex-soldiers against their ex-wives' lovers, and fallen families against families about to fall, all in a race not to the light but only to remain out of the darkness for a few moments more.