Eighteen months after the Kumite ended, Danny Corbin walks with a cane and counts his clean days. Then his brother Nate leaves on a 'fishing trip', and a fax from Macau says he is fighting again. It is one night only, in a dead dog track, with no bell and no towels, against the brother of the man Nate nearly killed in Erie. Danny can't throw a punch anymore. But a fighter still needs someone in his corner.