St. Mark's Ave. is the story of Dominick, a young boy of immigrant parents who grows up in a Brooklyn neighborhood during the 1920s and the Depression years. His early, carefree youth shared with close friends bears witness to quickly-changing times. Their boyhood experiences and mischievous escapades bond them for years to come.Personal tragedy and disillusionment transform his innocence to accepted futility. The unrelenting hard times and burdens almost smother his spirit, but through it all, he makes the best of it and valiantly endures.