 The Silver Daggers are a gang of young hoods who control an inner-city high school, where they sell drugs and sex to the student body and fight anyone who gets in their way. The Daggers have a ladies  auxiliary, The Dagger Debs, who rumble just as hard as the men, but one day chief Dagger Deb Lace meets her match in Maggie, a new kid who won t back down. When a scuffle lands Maggie and the Debs in jail for the night, Maggie comes to Lace s rescue, and Maggie becomes Lace s new right-hand woman. However, fellow Deb Patch is jealous of Maggie s friendship with Lace, and begins spinning a web of deceit to destroy Lace s trust in the new deb. In the midst of the infighting, the Silver Daggers find their turf challenged by a rival gang who pose as a community action team, and the Debs join forces with a revolutionary political group.