Young Anthony Treble is growing up in among one of the most troubled periods in Newark, N.J., background, ending up being a man equally as rival mobsters start to rise up and test the all-powerful DiMeo criminal activity household. Caught up in the transforming times is the uncle he idolizes, Dickie Moltisanti, whose influence over his nephew will help form the impressionable teen right into the all-powerful mob boss, Tony Soprano.