在这部凶兆剧情片中,THREAT以纽约市贫困的东区一场街道骚动为故事中心。骚动的主角是两位朋友(无家可归的straightedge朋克，白人吉姆和hip hop改革之父，黑人弗雷德)，当他们带领各自一伙人走到一起，而未能避免一起迅速失去控制的冲突时，无意的引起了暴乱。当主角们在与混乱抗争时，一部分人在设法停止暴力，而另一部分人则在使之扩大化。他们得面对自己的暴徒，判定自己救赎和遭天谴的形式。
THREAT revolves around a street riot in NYC's Lower East Side. At the center of the riot are two friends (a homeless straightedge punk named Jim and a hip hop revolutionary father named Fred) who inadvertently cause the riot when they bring their street tribes together and fail to avoid a conflict that quickly spirals out of control. As the characters struggle through the chaos, some seeking to stop the violence and others seeking to escalate it, they face their own demons and find their own forms of redemption and damnation.
