Raymond Lembecke (Vincent Gallo) is an convict just out of prison after serving time for selling drugs for his organized crime Tony Vago (Rod Steiger). (Lembecke was innocent and took the rap for Vago.) Lembecke thinks Vago owes him big time so, when his former boss gets him a measly job in a warehouse, he decides on revenge and plans to steal a million dollars' worth of drugs from him.