A story chronicling the life of Rick Wershe, a teen living in Detroit in the 1980s, who joins the ranks of the drug kingpins on the East Side to become a prolific cocaine trafficker, going by the name "White Boy Rick." Wershe works as an undercover informant for the FBI and DEA while simultaneously rising to become one of the biggest drug dealers in the city. He is ultimately arrested for drug-trafficking and sentenced to life in prison.