Augie Manetti is a small-time Chicago hustler who yearns to be a made man in La Cosa Nostra. To that end he married Cathy Musso, the niece of Salvatore "Artie" Musso, a capo in the New York Marzullo crime family. Although his union with the mafioso's niece has yielded little in the way of criminal advancement, Augie and Cathy's marriage has produced a super-talented, but troubled, singer, Tina, who is on the threshold of opera stardom. When Augie's brother, Mimo, marries the beautiful Helen Simone, who comes from a family of successful lawyers, a chain-reaction of action-packed events begins...

Don Patrick is in love The problem is, the rich, aging ex-Mafia crew boss is in love with Nora, his nephew, Ernie's, fiancee, and a girl young enough to be his granddaughter Because the beautiful Nora is so warm and friendly to him, Don thinks that she's in love with him, too Poor Ernie, is still a soldier toiling away for Hippy Fiore, who took over Don's crew, and is no longer of any use to his uncle. Don confides this to his best friend, a younger man, Dr. Bill Maltese. The doctor is shocked by his old friend's thinking, but rather than subject Don to the uncertainty of psychoanalysis,...