Los Angeles filmmaker Larry Torro set out to make what should have been a short film about his New York Italian family. Instead he inadvertently found himself doing a film about his aging "Uncle Jimmy". Jimmy 9 Lives, a high-ranking member of an East Coast crime family.

With Jimmy as his guide Torro spent the next eleven harrowing months becoming a reluctant participant in illegal activities as well as encountering some violent yet fascinating career criminals. As he descended further into their world, he witnessed something so chilling that it altered the course of both their lives...forever.