During Batmans mid-career of fighting crime, he finds himself at the mercy of the Victim Syndicate wanting revenge for their treatment at the hands of the Batman and his protegees by kidnapping a whole building full of people and forcing the whole Gotham to watch each guest be slowly dragged to their damnation as a victim of the syndicate while all the blame goes to batman and his team (Red Hood, Batgirl, Nightwing, Robin and the Paroled Clayface) for not being able to save them due to the syndicates tricks of guilt.
