When a titan music mogul (Denzel Washington), widely known as having the "best ears in the business," is targeted with a ransom plot, he is jammed up in a life-or-death moral dilemma. Denzel Washington and Spike Lee reunite for the fifth in their long working relationship for a reinterpretation of Kurosawa's crime thriller High and Low, now played out on the mean streets of contemporary New York City.
