The lives of three residents of New York's Staten Island intersect as they struggle to get ahead.

In Staten Island, New York, Parmie Tarzo is a powerful mobster boss. Family man Sully Halverson is a septic tank cleaner married to Mary Halverson and they are trying to have a baby. Deaf and dumb Jasper "Jas" Sabiano slices deli meat in a market and also works for Parmie Tarzo slicing the bodies of his victims. Jas likes Sully and expects to win the horse races. One day not-so-bright Sully decides to heist Parmie Tarzo's house, expecting to artificially inseminate Mary with better sperm than his in an expensive clinic. Meanwhile, Jas wins the horse race; there is also an attempt on Tarzo's life and he finds that his gangsters have planned it. The lives of the three residents are entwined with tragic consequences.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil