A public defender has minutes to save her 16-year-old client from a life sentence for murder by convincing him to take a plea deal for a crime he only technically committed, but to defend this boy, she will have to condemn him.

A young French martial arts expert who was born and raised in America to Mexican parents has to go to a "very illegal and underground tournament" in China that everyone knows about, in order to avenge the honor of his not dead master.