In the 1930s, jazz guitarist Emmet Ray idolizes Django Reinhardt, faces gangsters and falls in love with a mute woman.

Rich Bower is an up-and-coming star in the hip-hop world. Everyone wants to be around him, including Raven and her fellow upper-class white high school friends. The growing appeal of black culture among white teens fascinates documentary filmmaker Sam Donager, who sets out to chronicle it with her husband, Terry. But before Bower was a rapper, he was a gangster, and his criminal past comes back to haunt him and all those around him.

Four young filmmakers try to raise money for their project by telling potential investors that Robert De Niro is on board -- now, they have to find him.

"Everybody wants to be an actor or a gangster. " That's life according to mafia hustler Tony Donitello. For he and his brother Vinnie, being raised in Bensonhurst Brooklyn around the local loan sharks, bookies and hitmen, they grew up learning three things; You know NOTHING, you hear NOTHING, you say NOTHING! After connecting with erratic underboss, "Crazy Sal" Cortino, what Tony so desires to play in the movies, he is destined to become in real life. The roads of Brooklyn are merging into one and his choices are no longer his own. As Tony guides us through this provocative journey of Friendship, Loyalty, and Retribution, he reveals to us the difference between Power and Powerlessness.