Focuses primarily on one of New York's five families, the Lucchese borgata, an Italian-American crime dynasty. It begins with the emergence of the Lucchese crime family in the 1920s with the founding boss Gaetano “Three Fingers Brown” Lucchese. It details how they made their mark in the garment industry, and declined in the '70s and '80s, and then virtually disintegrating in the 1990s under the leadership of Anthony “Gas Pipe” Casso.