Can a desperately lonely little boy figure out how to escape the shackles of personal demons and a criminal destiny to emerge from the ghetto and find true romance? His road to normality and happiness is not a simple one. His attempts to be a real person are impossibly discombobulated and obscured by a double assassination, an obligatory future in the mafia, the intoxicating lure of the life-easy money and criminals, the thrill of near-death experiences and the excitement of a nationwide big-time con. Will truelove win or be doomed from the beginning?