Murder leads a young black Detroit police detective to the vengeful spirit of his mother, who intends to destroy everyone who caused her pain...including him.

SYNOPSIS:

Assigned with his partner to solve an attempted homicide at a condemned building, young black police detective Langston “Poet” Sand finds himself involved with something much more complicated – and personal. The word “Dirt” is burned into the grass where victim Stew Dodd lay. The body of Police Detective Al Woleczka, missing twenty years, is found buried inside the wall of the second-floor apartment Stew fell from. Along with the body is the wedding ring of Poet's deceased mother, Marilyn. Identified at the scene by a witness, Police Detectives John Dodd, Stew's father, and Amos Sand, Poet's father, lifelong enemies since the 1967 Race Riot. When a pair of murders with the word “Dirt” left at the scene follow, Poet and partner Marcus “Sawbuck” Rhome find evidence pointing to Amos, but the bitter old man tells them the killer is “beyond their reach.” Poet then uncovers a shocking secret about his deceased mother: she was a prostitute while married to Amos, and John Dodd was her pimp. Poet digs into his family history; to the 1967 Race Riots where his Uncle Tony, now a priest, was shot by young white racist cop John Dodd and left a paraplegic; to the night of his mother's death twenty years ago in the same room Stew Dodd fell from and where Detective Woleczka's body was just found. A confrontation with his father reveals that the spirit of Poet's deceased mother is committed to killing everyone who caused her pain while she lived. And Poet's very existence has caused her the most pain of all.