Jack Carter, a member of a London criminal gang, comes to his native Doncaster for the funeral of his brother Frank. The official version of the investigation: death in a car accident as a result of alcohol intoxication. Jack is alarmed by this, since his brother has never touched alcohol. He begins his own investigation. However, the conspiracy of silence that has formed around Frank's death is not so easy to break. Old acquaintances avoid him, old enemies lie in wait... Jack's London masters, dissatisfied with his disobedience, send their thugs after him. But Carter must get to the bottom of the truth, even at the cost of his own life...