What did they want that day, and what were they trying to live for?
A magnificent portrait of men living through a turbulent time in America.
New York, early 1921. Two boys, Noodles and Max, meet as the storm of Prohibition sweeps across the United States. Eventually, friends who admire them gather, and their rampage takes on a tinge of madness. Friendship, love, betrayal... This is an epic saga of Jewish gangsters spanning half a century.