In the late nineteenth century, the Capone family of Sicily became embroiled in a local gang war and lost out in the power struggle within the Sicilian Mafia, facing annihilation at the hands of their enemies. The family patriarch, old Vito Capone, knew there was no future for them in Sicily. He led the family's core members, including more than two hundred loyal followers and their families, aboard a steamship bound for America.
They carried hopes for the New World, along with the code of survival and family honor that had sustained their Mafia family in Sicily for centuries. After a long and grueling voyage, they finally arrived in New York. With no friends or connections and unable to speak the language, they had no choice but to squeeze into a slum on Manhattan's Lower East Side. It was a dangerous place teeming with all kinds of immigrant gangs, and conditions were brutally harsh…
