When student Jake Lo witnesses a killing, he finds himself caught between two feuding drug lords. Betrayed and set up by the federal agents, the only person he can trust is Ryan, a Chicago cop who reminds Jake of his deceased father.

Brandon Ma is an average Joe but his best friend, Michael, is a sinister drug dealer with a crush on Brandon's girlfriend, May. When Michael murders a dirty cop and frames his friend, sending him to jail, Brandon returns for vengeance.

A scientist's (Ernest Borgnine) daughter (Debi Monahan) helps a CIA agent (Brandon Lee) find her father, kidnapped by the KGB to make a laser.

Interviews with fellow actors and Lee's son profile the life of the martial artist from his birth in 1940 until his death in 1973.