In the early 1980s, the construction of the Jacob Javits Convention Center on the Westies' home turf in Hell's Kitchen promises a financial windfall.

Despite being outnumbered 50-to-1 by the Five Families of the Italian Mafia, the Westies' legendary brutality and cunning have given them the leverage necessary to share the spoils through a fragile détente.

But internal conflict between the brash younger generation and the old-school leadership threatens to set a match to this powder keg, which will sweep the Westies into the FBI's ever-deepening investigation into the Italian mafia.