Gloria (Sharon Stone) has survived more than her share of risky relationships. This time she’s hooked up with a guy who’s real trouble, a guy who could get her killed. Fresh off a three-year prison term, Gloria immediately violates parole and returns to New York City. Desperate and angry, she lashes out, putting to good use the tough education she earned growing up in Hell’s Kitchen. In the process, she accidentally becomes guardian of a stubborn six-year-old boy, Nicky (Jean-Luke Figueroa), whose family has been wiped out by her criminal consorts. Gloria has always traveled light and been in control. Now she’s forced to scurry through the streets of New York burdened by this excess baggage. As Gloria’s life spins out of control, she realizes that both she and the boy are marked for murder by the mob. They have nobody but each other.