This powerful story of family, friendship, love, honor and courage among two young cops is set in the mean streets of Los Angeles's toughest precinct. The film stars Academy Award nominee Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Pena as the young police officers as they patrol south central Los Angeles. Giving the story a gripping, first-person immediacy, the action unfolds through footage from the handheld HD cameras of the police officers, gang members, surveillance cameras, and citizens caught in the line of fire to create a riveting portrait of the city's most dangerous corners, the cops who risk their lives there every day, and the price they and their families are forced to pay.