Hip-hop star Meek Mill buys a gun for personal protection, which leads to a dangerous encounter with law enforcement and a dark journey into Philadelphia's criminal justice system that he spends more than a decade trying to escape.

Allegations of a bizarre request by Judge Brinkley at a probation hearing fuel speculation by Meek's supporters that she is taking an unusually personal interest in the case; she prohibits Meek from performing and earning money while on house arrest.

Meek's son Papi misses his father; private investigators who the defence team hired to investigate the judge turn their attention to Meek's original case and revisit the events of January 2007.