Dickie DiCenzo is a strong arm for the local crime family who has just been promoted to a hitman. After his cousin, Tommy, decides to stir up trouble, crime boss, Carmine De Luca, has to demand that Dickie clips Tommy before things get worse.
Set in 1964, a camera crew follows Willie Pep, retired featherweight boxing champion. Down and out in Hartford CT, married to a woman half his age and with a drug-addled son and mounting debts, Pep decides to make a return to the ring.