The life and time of mobster Jimmy "The Weasel" Faranna from is youth in Cleveland to the violent years in California, getting made in the Los Angeles crime family and more, across forty years of american history. The film is inspired by the figure of real mobster Aladena James Fratianno, better known as Jimmy "The Weasel" Fratianno, one of the most important Cosa Nostra member ever to defect.