After a long stint doing time for a string of brutal crimes, John leaves jail determined to get his life back on track. Taking a job in the local boxing gym he makes new friends and seems to be getting on the straight and narrow, but his gangland past soon comes back to haunt him as violence spills on to his own doorstep... Aggravated Assault is a tough, tense and all-too-real account of the shocking acts committed by gangs, the speed at which events can escalate and the difficulty of maintaining integrity in a world fraught with danger.