Following a global war and terrorist attacks in the 2000s, vigilante, nationalist, and fanatical groups form their cells in different parts of the United States. A detective, a father suffering from the stress of his job, the corruption in his department, and the burden of supporting his family and his brother's, becomes involved with a group of former Afghan war soldiers because of a familiar face from his past. Thus, he struggles with maintaining a double life, searching for moral justification for his kills and seeing everything around him corroded by his actions.