A vigilante ex-con is determined to clean up his crime-infested community. As he avenges the death of his sister, he begins a series of actions that may lead to his own destruction.

ZERO IN THE SYSTEM focuses on an ex-con whose sister died of a drug overdose while he was in prison. He has developed a Messiah complex, and within his crime infested community he begins a series of actions that may lead to his own destruction. The film was shot in Spring Valley, New York, cast with mainly non-actors, most of them ex-convicts from the area. The story was heavily developed through improvisation.—Anonymous