表面上，约书亚（詹姆斯·弗兰切威勒 James Frecheville 饰）只是一个17岁的普通少年，但他的一生注定不会平凡，因为自打出生起，他便背负了著名黑道家族——科迪家族之子的“好”名声。母亲的去世让他得以重新回到了这个充满了罪恶和争斗的家族里，尚未成熟的他会受到怎样的洗礼？而他和叔叔以及三个哥哥之间的关系会有着怎样的变化？　　警探莱基（盖·皮尔斯 Guy Pearce 饰）的出现给予了约书亚一种新的希望，他不懈的劝说着约书亚，希望他能够回归到正常的人生轨道上来。同时，警方盯上了科迪家族，只等待时机到来将他们一网打尽。在亲情和道义，人生和理想之间，年轻的约书亚不知道该何去何从。Despite being no saint herself, Julia Cody has shielded her seventeen year old son, Joshua "J" Cody, from her Melbourne-based criminal relatives who they have not seen in years. After Julia dies in front of J's eyes from a self-inflicted heroin overdose, J, who is slightly detached from life, feels he has no choice but to contact his maternal grandmother, Janine "Smurf" Cody, the family matriarch, for a place to live. Smurf rules the family with a borderline incestuous love over her three sons, the quietly menacing Andrew "Pope" Cody, the hyperactive Craig Cody, and the barely of age Darren Cody. Pope and his best friend, Barry "Baz" Brown, are armed robbers, with Darren their up and coming apprentice, while Craig is a mid level drug dealer. Melbourne's Armed Robbery Squad is after specifically Pope, who is hiding out. But when the standoff between the Codys and the Armed Robbery Squad is brought up a notch, an all out war ensues, with some casualties and J caught in the middle. The only grounding in J's life is his girlfriend, Nicky Henry. With those casualties comes an investigation by Homicide Detective Senior Sergeant Nathan Leckie, who knows the Codys are involved in some of those deaths. As Leckie tries to get J on his side, J has to figure out how best to get himself out from the middle, where he trusts neither side. J also wants to figure out how to exact what he considers justice in an all around bad situation.

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