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Synopsis
As a corrupt shipyard boss struggles to force the feisty nun who banned him from church to relent so the mob will induct him, she tries to make him a better man until the mob is ready to kill her... and he is ready to die for her.Devout Catholic Girolamo Vizzini runs NYC's docks with an iron fist. Like his father before him, Giro is proud he's about to be accepted into the Cosca, the city's largest crime organization. Giro keeps a blind eye to the contraband that comes into port, and the Cosca boys help him control his workers. But when a worker disappears and Giro is suspected, Teresa, the feisty young nun who runs the orphanage, bans Giro from church. The scandal makes the Cosca nervous. They postpone his initiation until he can convince Teresa to let him back in.Thinking Teresa would owe him a huge favor, Giro rubs out Vince, the Cosca recruiter who's been poaching Teresa's orphans. To Giro's consternation, the crazy, ungrateful nun is horrified. She isn't like anyone he knows. She can't be swayed by a gun to the jugular or a wad of cash for church repairs. Teresa struggles to show Giro the code of vengeance he was born into begets nothing but pain. Unconvinced and still determined to win his initiation, Giro proposes to his long-time girlfriend Rosario, figuring he could win favours by inviting Teresa, and she'd have to let him into the church for the wedding. Instead, Giro's bride is murdered on their wedding day by Frank, the father of the thieving dock worker Giro beat to death - the murder that set off Teresa in the first place. With the truth of Teresa's message sinking in, Giro sets out to make himself a better man by cleansing the docks of corruption. But that doesn't stop Frank from reciprocating and wanting to kill Giro's only remaining friend - Teresa. To spare Teresa, Giro convinces Frank to beat him instead. Of course Frank agrees leaving Giro for dead in the same spot where he had left his son. Giro however, survives, and after recovering and serving his time he goes to see the woman he can't get out of his mind. Teresa is no longer a nun and perhaps Giro has a shot at ultimate redemption.