 Max Payne is a good family cop who comes home to find his family murdered by psychopaths driven insane by a new designer drug called Valkyr. His life in ruins, Max joins the DEA and goes undercover to uncover the origins of the twisted narcotic. But when a fellow DEA agent is murdered and Max takes the fall for it he ventures through New York to uncover the frame up. But as he nears closer to the answers Max finds himself not only running from the police and up against the mob, but an unstoppable conspiracy that will go to any lengths to cover up an old secret hidden within the depths of the city...