In Jamaica a boy pledges his life to "The Order", an organized crime underworld gang. Torn between that alliance and his mother's hopes for a better life in America he sets out to live up to her aspirations when she sends for him and his sister. But when the struggles of a new life abroad threatens to take his mother life and restrict him to poverty he gives birth to "The Order" in a quest to safe her and lay claim to the American dream.—Frank C. Matthews