Bronco, a soldier with the all-Black 92nd Infantry Division, leaves behind the lifestyle of a gangster in Harlem to fight against the Germans in Italy in 1944. His skill as a soldier is impressive, and he fights like a one-man army to take down several German soldiers during a particularly intense battle. But it is what he experiences after this battle that will change the course of his life.  

A group of dead German soldiers wearing World War I uniforms appears before him, but Bronco is the only one who can see them. Amid the chaos and suffering of war, Bronco discovers that in addition to his superhuman strength, he can see the dead.  

A decade later, Bronco is working as a gravedigger and suffering from PTSD. The bars and lounges of Harlem offer him a reprieve from the haunting memories of war, but he can’t escape his supernatural abilities. He is soon haunted by the daughter of a Mississippi farmer killed by the KKK. Entangled in a strained war between gangsters in Harlem, Bronco reluctantly leaves the city for Mississippi to investigate the girl’s death and uncovers more than he could have ever expected.