Young Anthony Soprano is growing up in one of the most tumultuous eras in Newarks history, becoming a man just as rival gangsters begin to rise up and challenge the all-powerful DiMeo crime familys hold over the increasingly race-torn city. Caught up in the changing times is the uncle he idolizes, Dickie Moltisanti, who struggles to manage both his professional and personal responsibilities–and whose influence over his impressionable nephew will help make the teenager into the all-powerful mob boss well later come to know: Tony Soprano.
