When Abe Josef gets picked out of a line up for something he didn't do he loses his scholarshp to pretigious Tower University. Since the "suits' from Tower think he's capable of violence he plans to become their worst nightmare. But his gangster friends prove even less loyal than the PhD's and he ends up facing time in prison. Abe's only alies come from unexpected places, an over-looked classmate, a posse of street writers, and his own loser of a father.