Excellent performances bolster this ramshackle tale of a champion boxer trying to make good with his life following the loss of the one thing that always managed to keep him on track, his beloved wife, both orphans who met in foster care as they grew up on the wrong side of the tracks in Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen. The loss occurred after a hungry would-be contender insults her honor at a charity event, leading to a violent altercation that sees a stray bullet cross her path. That boxer is undefeated Billy "The Great" Hope, whose life at the top implodes when he can't keep his anger in check, leading to a series of self-destructive acts that threatens to undo virtually everything that he and his wife Maureen took a lifetime to build up. To bet back on his feet again, Billy's going to have to start again from the bottom, fighting not for revenge, money, or glory, but for the betterment of the life of Leila, the daughter he has to raise alone.