Panicked pianist and crooner Sam Johnson finds himself in bed in a Manhattan hotel with his emotionally hungry, crazed fashion model daughter Julie, who in her stupor mistakes him for a lover. Trapped between two mob families fighting for supremacy, Sam and Julie have become desperate pawns.
It begins one day in 1973 when aspiring speakeasy pianist and new father Sam Johnson has a chance encounter with high-school chum Donnie Turcotte: recently released prisoner and mob soldier who makes Sam an offer he can’t refuse.