Tom Powers and Matt Doyle have best friends and fellow gangsters since they were children. When they comes into their adulthood, they join the gang of Paddy Ryan, bootlegging during the Prohibition era. Tom soon rises up through the ranks of the underworld. But when their rival gang faction weaknesses of their gang and a gang war ensues, instead of laying low as Paddy suggest, Tom and Matt go face to face with the rivals and end their lives in the bloody war.