SYNOPSIS:

Michael Maine believes he’s decided on his path in life. He’s working his way up though the local ranks of MMA, fighting at light heavyweight and making a name for himself, sights set on a national promotion. At the after party Michael’s opponent, who he beat that night, confronts him and Michael obliges his insinuations of cheating with a fight. Trouble is, the guy brought a friend for backup, and the first thing Michael does is deck that guy in brutal fashion. Not god, as the guy ends up in the ICU and Michael ends up in jail. Overnight Michael’s dreams are gone and, if the guy doesn’t recover, it may get even worse. He may be a murderer. All from one simple, bad decision. But he gets a second chance. The guy pulls through, Michael’s sentence is lessened, and two other things fall his way. One, Michael applies what he learned studying criminal justice in college to apply for early parole. At the same time, his godfather, a man he hasn’t seen in over a decade, shows up with an offer. Uncle Jim, as he calls him, is a seasoned police detective, since the time he and Michael’s dad worked together, and he can use Michael’s help. In exchange he accelerates the application Michael has submitted. Turns out Jim has been trying to nail a group committing road heists, dubbed the “Buggy Bandits” by the media for their method of using dune buggies to nab transports of drugs, and he’s finally found a possible clue. But it isn’t much of one: a hat, tying the bandits (possibly) to a local gym. He wants Michael to go in undercover and find out what he can. And so Michael goes from a seeming dead end in jail, to working undercover to get himself accepted by a bunch of MMA-fighter adrenaline junkies that may or may not be the bad guys Jim thinks they are. His discoveries bring increasingly difficult decisions as the moral dilemma of what he finds, balanced against the family they become, forces his hand in ways he could never have expected. For there are far worse bad guys in the world. And the love of a girl he can’t possibly imagine being involved, may be the one part of this twisting plot he can’t possibly solve.