In the darkest days of World War II, an American Mafioso is the Allies only hope to tip the scales of victory As the Allies struggle to gain a foothold in Italy in 1943, American gangster Charles Lucky Luciano is pulled from his prison cell in New York by the U.S. military and handed a top-secret mission. Lucky must go to Sicily to persuade a distrustful Mafia to revolt against the island s fascist occupiers.If successful, Lucky s mission will pave the way for a full-scale invasion of Italy and aid the advancing Allied forces in breaking Hitler s grip on the nation once and for all. But if he fails, the toll in human blood will be higher than anyone can imagine.