Italian kid with boxing dreams falls for mobster's daughter. Faces threats, relocates to impoverished Puerto Rican neighborhood.

Spike Fumo is an Italian kid aspiring to be a boxer. He falls in love with a rich girl, who turns out to be the daughter of a Mafia boss. Spike is threatened to leave Bensonhurst by the mob, and then goes to a poverty-stricken Puerto Rican part of Brooklyn.—Philip Brubaker <[email protected]>