Born into poverty, Jaime yearns for a better life, a life that he can see at a small scale first in the petty criminals of the street and then, writ large, in the wealth and privilege of the Mob and their casinos. Plucked from his position as a dealer to be the personal driver of Meyer Lansky, Jaime sees in it the fulfillment of his desires, borne out even further when he meets the beautiful and ambitious Yolanda Castaño. His loyalty to Lansky gains him the Mob boss’s trust, but that loyalty is tested the further he is drawn into Lansky’s criminal universe.