A clocker is a 24-hour drug dealer & Strike (Mekhi Phifer) is the hardest-working one on the streets. But for Strike time is running out. When the local drug kingpin (Delroy Lindo) tips Strike off about an opportunity for advancement a rival dealer ends up dead & Strike finds himself caught between two homicide detectives. One is Mazill (John Turturro) who's only looking for an easy bust. the other Rocco (Harvey Keitel) who's looking for something much harder to find the truth & when Strike's law-abiding brother confesses to the murder Rocco vows not to rest until he’s sure the real shooter is behind bars. Director Spike Lee producer Martin Scorsese & writer Richard Price along with music by Seal Marc Dorsey Des’ree & Chaka Khan deliver a film so rivetting you’ll feel it grab you by the collar & toss you into the middle ofan urban battlefield.