Harry was "old school." The son of struggling Jewish immigrants, he came off of New Haven's Legion Avenue, that hard-pressed neighborhood where survival was the game and everything was a gamble. His story is told through vivid sometimes startling dream sequences and flashbacks - those of his hard-drinking life-long friend and undertaker, his Black girl friend, and a daughter unknown to the sons, among them. It's a saga filled with back room bookies and loan sharks, corrupt cops, prize fighters and late 40's Irgun gun smugglers as well as belaguered wives, lovers lost, and generations of abandoned kids left to navigate an uncertain world on their own.