Officer Drex Dramvono comes upon a grisly murder scene in the forest and a terrified teenage girl facing a lion poised to kill her. Drex shifts to his own lion and scares the predator away, then shifts back and carries the girl to the trail, calls it in to the station, only to become the prime suspect.

Thanks to the girl pointing him out in court, Drex is convicted to life. With no contact at all with the outside world, his future is grim. He has none. All he does is dream of retribution, of being able to escape to punish the girl who had lied on the stand.