Young Anthony Soprano is growing up in one of the most tumultuous eras in Newarks history, becoming a man just as rival gangsters begin to rise up and challenge the all-powerful DiMeo crime familys hold over the increasingly race-torn city. Caught up in the changing times is the uncle he idolizes, Dickie Moltisanti, who struggles to manage both his professional and personal responsibilities--and whose influence over his impressionable nephew will help make the teenager into the all-powerful mob boss well later come to know: Tony Soprano.