Synopsis

New York, 1957. SPIDER, a 17-year-old gang leader looking to make a rep, gets in way over his head when he blunders into the gambling nest of a notorious gangster. On the run, he's found and taken in by a sheltered young woman, TAMARA, who lives with her reclusive uncle, BIG DIDI, on the top floor of an abandoned hotel. She manages to keep Spider a secret from the bedridden Didi, an exiled crime lord who was gunned down and presumed dead 30 years earlier by the same gangster, CASKET MIKE, now pursuing Spider...

New York, 1957. SPIDER, a 17-year-old gang leader looking to make a rep, gets in way over his head when he blunders into the gambling nest of a notorious gangster. On the run, he's found and taken in by a sheltered young woman, TAMARA, who lives with her reclusive uncle, BIG DIDI, on the top floor of an abandoned hotel. She manages to keep Spider a secret from the bedridden Didi, an exiled crime lord who was gunned down and presumed dead 30 years earlier by the same gangster, CASKET MIKE, now pursuing Spider...