Ottumwa, Iowa 1954 Griffin McCann's small-town world is rocked when the bank where he works as a guard is robbed. He chases the robbers out of the bank and into a gun battle, leaving one hood dead and one on the lam. Left alone with a dead robber and a bag full of cash, McCann makes a rash decision ... Knowing he's made a bad mistake, McCann wants to return the money, but life is never that simple. He needs a plan, so he turns to the one thing he knows best - boxing. Now, his moment of weakness has put him in the ring against a deadly opponent who wants to destroy him. But McCann remembers the most important thing Father Tim, the battling priest, taught him back at St. Vincent's Asylum For Boys in Chicago: When you get hit, hit back ...