<p>After living under dictatorship and through WWII in Italy, Peppino arrives in America in 1948 expecting to find streets &ldquo;paved with gold.&rdquo; Instead he finds himself a foreigner, a Dago, living above a grocery shop with his parents and his Uncle Carlo, who sneaked in illegally through New York.&nbsp; He isn&rsquo;t prepared for the slush and bone chilling cold of a Chicago winter. When his old friend Dominic shows up, the temptation for the boys to connect with the &ldquo;Outfit&rdquo; who control the streets around Grand Avenue is fierce.&nbsp; They&rsquo;d have money, a group to belong to, and life would be easy. Or would it?</p>