汉娜·李·贝克是一个明亮的十几岁的女孩被困在暴力和枪支,冰毒实验室和恶性骑摩托车帮派,而其唯一的避难所是国际象棋的黑暗南方黑道。她与琥珀,她的姐姐,和她的叔叔唐尼,一个吸毒者。每个人都生活在恐惧之中叔叔弗兰克·斯廷森,谁运行非法的家族企业以铁腕,他的精神病的弟弟鲍比辅助 的。事情变坏时,琥珀爱上野生比尔,一个甲基毒贩谁发现自己在与弗兰克战争。汉娜认识到拯救她的家庭的唯一途径是通过巧妙策划坑一兵对抗另一个狡猾的棋局。Hannah Lee Baker is a bright teen girl trapped in the dark Southern underworld of violence and guns, meth labs and vicious biker gangs, and whose only refuge is chess. She lives with Amber, her older sister; and her uncle Donny, an addict. All live in fear of Uncle Frank Stinson, who runs the illegal family business with an iron fist, aided by his psychotic younger brother Bobby. Things change for the worse when Amber falls in love with Wild Bill, a meth trafficker who finds himself at war with Frank. Hannah realizes the only way to save her family is by cleverly scheming to pit one pawn against another in a cunning chess game.