The Varaki family run the local grocery store, but tragedy hits the family hard. The sudden death of the matriarch of the clan is followed by the favourite son’s death in Korea. The teenage daughter falls in with a bad crowd and there’s also the other son, Walter, who has been dipping into the till to fund his escape from Doris, his sharp-tongued wife. Then there are the villains …

When their lives intersect the action builds to a bloody and explosive conclusion …