[1] In Utica, New York, a truck driver nicknamed “Clean” works as a garbage collector in a decaying, crime-ridden urban residential neighborhood.

He collects usable parts which he salvages, repairs, and sells to a thrift shop owned by his acquaintance.

Upon realizing his suppliers have shorted him five bags of cocaine, Michael beats one of his partners to death.

Michael suddenly appears, apologizes for the stench, and offers him money, but Clean refuses and continues doing his job.

At home, Michael angrily confronts Mikey for hanging out with his friends instead of helping him run his business.

After watching the recording from the prior night, Michael orders Frank, a corrupt police officer, to kill Dianda and Ethel and bring Clean to him alive.

At Michael’s residence, Frank learns from a fellow officer that Clean was once a feared professional assassin known as “The Grim Reaper”, who quit and secluded himself in the city after his daughter died.

Some time afterwards, crime rates in Dianda’s neighborhood have significantly waned as more kids come out to play in the streets.

[11] Nick Schager of Variety gave the film a negative review and wrote, "Obvious and derivative in borderline-shameless fashion, it’s a B-movie knock-off with little originality and even less flair.

"[1] Andrew Mack of Screen Anarchy gave the film a positive review and wrote that Brody and Solet "made a compact vision of the Man With a Past type thriller and given it more emotional heft than most of its predecessors combined".