Just think, Charlie Partanna - a gangster with twenty years of experience, a cold-blooded executor of death sentences imposed by the Prizzi mafia clan, the keeper of the honor and traditions of one of the main families of the criminal world of New York - fell in love like a boy. His chosen one is the beautiful Irene, to whom he does not dare admit his “work”, fearing that she will not understand him. But, to Charlie’s delight, Irene understands him perfectly, because she is her own person in the mafia. Mutual passion that suddenly flares up gives lovers hope for eternal, cloudless happiness. But, alas, life does not allow them to relax. The showdown in the Prizzi family and the ensuing war between mafia clans draws Charlie and Irene into themselves, threatening to destroy the idyll..