Five short stories with contemporary settings. In New York, people are indifferent to derelicts sleeping on sidewalks, to a woman’s assault in front of an apartment building, and to a…

A petty hoodlum pulls jewellery store heists in broad daylight. The cop on his tail knows he has accomplices and focuses on the gangster’s girl friend is his attempt to…

A Mexican community is slaughtered by Confederate troops; the lone survivor, a boy, is taken in by a preacher. Years later, the boy is now a soft-spoken, devout young man…

In the ruins of Berlin, a twelve-year-old boy, Edmund Kohler, is left to his own devices in order to survive and to help his family do the same.

The rise and fall of a Mafia gangster, based on the life of murdered New York gangster “Crazy” Joey Gallo.

After the Civil War ends, two soldiers return home with a cache of stolen money. They are caught by Union troops. One escapes, but the other is sent to prison…

A quartet of young neo-Fascists terrorise the Milanise locals while the Police mostly look the other way.