Three different stories unfold surrounding the life, exploits and indeed the soul of a local kingpin named Marcellus Wallace. The first details WallaceÕs wife being taken out to dinner by one of his hitmen and summarily overdosing on some heroin that she mistook for cocaine. The second focuses on a fixed fight in which the boxer somehow ends up winning the fight and has to run for his life. The third story involves two of WallaceÕs hitmen having breakfast in a diner during a robbery, which results in one of the assassins swearing off future murders. It eventually becomes clear that the entire string of events is centered around the recovery of a briefcase with a mysterious glowing object inside.