When Amir's only child, Lelah, is murdered in a mass shooting at her college, Amir is stricken with grief. He does not want to be healed, he wants his daughter back, safe, sound, and alive. But that cannot be. He falls into psychosis. He listens to and succumbs to an angry, brutal, vindictive voice, that of a Beast, demanding revenge on the "gun people" responsible for Lelah's death. From there, Amir embarks on a bloody journey of revenge and redemption and a fight for his soul.