How does a man pick up the pieces with only one arm? A badly injured Terry Shepherd returns from Vietnam and is spat on by war protestors at the airport. Disabled and still reeling from his harrowing journey in Vietnam as a unit medic, Terry finds himself running afoul with the vicious North Richmond Sharpie gang. With his restaurant job up in smoke and his best friend dead, Terry realises that he must kill or be killed – only to find out that someone’s already beaten him to it.