Young bootlegger Rooster (Big Boi) and undertaker's son Percival (Benjamin) are best friends from childhood, but adult life has become woefully complex: Rooster's wife despises his life at the nightclub Church, Percival is stuck taking care of his depressed father, and an ambitious gangster (Terrence Howard) kills Rooster's mentor to take over the gangster's bootlegging operation. The arrival of a high-handed cabaret singer (Paula Patton) may help Rooster save Church, but when she and Percival fall in love, troubles multiply!