An American fugitive flees to Rome and tries to elude capture by masquerading as a priest.

The ordinary life of the prudent employee Mr. Travet accelerates as he and her wife meet his new chief.

To make an honest woman of his pregnant sister, Rosalie, callous New York mobster Phil Regal intimidates witnesses and bribes a store clerk to get Rosalie’s condemned boyfriend, Nicky Bradna, out of prison. But Regal’s meddling deeds soon backfire.

In turn-of-the-century New York, an Italian seeks vengeance on the mobsters who killed his father.