After losing his wife and daughter during an armed robbery, a war veteran returns from the afterlife to exact revenge — but the deeper he descends into his mission, the closer he comes to the thin line between justice and damnation.

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This story unfolds in present-day Jackson, Mississippi a place where the church holds as much sway as the law.

Andrew, a war veteran, has faced death countless times. Decorated for bravery, he never speaks of the deeds behind his medals, knowing they conceal things he is not proud of.

After leaving the military, Andrew works as a bank security guard. He is kind, quiet, and carries a deep faith in God. His wife, Sally, and their 12-year-old daughter, Susan, are his light and strength. Together, they attend church, engage in community life, and try to live simply and honestly.

But within Andrew rages a silent war. Despite his daily prayers, he cannot forgive himself for the past. The faces of the dead, the pain, the choices between survival and morality they haunt him. In every action, he seeks redemption through goodness. He never raises his voice at Sally, never argues, even when she tests his patience. It’s his penance.

One evening, as his shift nears its end, Sally and Susan come to the bank to meet him before heading to the supermarket. Just then, three armed robbers burst into the building. Andrew’s partner tries to draw his weapon gunfire erupts. Sally and Susan are shot and killed. Andrew, trying to shield them, is mortally wounded.

He dies in the hospital, never having found peace not during the war, nor after.

Suddenly, Andrew finds himself in a vast, desolate place. A seemingly endless fence with enormous gates cuts through the barren land. Around him wander lost souls broken, insane, dressed in rags, moaning, screaming, convulsing, or lying in silent horror. Confused, Andrew sits by the wall and watches.

Eventually, the gates open. Two towering red beings escort him to a throne room. On the throne sits the Devil red, winged, clawed, with a gaze that pierces the soul. He tells Andrew that his soul is unusual. The torments of Hell cannot touch him he has survived war, repented, and found faith. Such souls are rare.

The Devil offers him a place in his service. Andrew refuses. As a response, he’s given a second chance a return to Earth.

Andrew wakes up in the morgue. Alive, but changed. The world now appears rotten to its core. He sees evil in every little act. He sees the wicked go unpunished. Visions of Hell never leave him where sinners endlessly and simultaneously endure the harm they once inflicted.

He remembers the Devil saying that God is always near because God is water. Water is the source of life, and man is made of it. But people no longer value it.

The only thing the Devil ever gave mankind was money a Roman coin, which he now gives Andrew. It symbolizes a power that shifted humanity's loyalty. The Devil cannot force anyone. Only punish. He also showed Andrew how order reigns in Hell, where his servants live in peace and discipline, witnessing sinners’ eternal pain.

But Andrew’s soul is tormented by only one thing the murder of his family. He believes evil must be punished. Through an old contact, he tracks down the killers.

He finds the first one drugged, and kills him by stabbing a pen into his eye. The second he finds in a garage, working on a car Andrew crushes him with the vehicle and sets the building on fire. The third, the gang’s leader, he barely defeats in a brutal fight, killing him by pouring boiling water into his mouth.

Justice seems served. But Andrew cannot bear the burden. In a bar, he drowns his grief in alcohol, then deliberately steps in front of a truck.

Hell again. But this time, the Devil does not smile. Andrew is no longer an exception. Now he must choose endless torment or servitude. The Devil also shows him how the murderers of his family now suffer not only emotionally, but eternally feeling the pain of their fatal wounds.

Andrew chooses the second path. After undergoing the ritual of immersion in infernal water, he resurfaces changed. His skin red, his eyes cold. He has become what he once feared — a servant of the Devil.