Mickey Prada's a nice kid. He works hard at a neighborhood
seafood market in Brooklyn putting fish on ice. He’s got a
nice girlfriend. He even delayed college a year, to help
his sick dad. But Mickey’s got a problem. A customer at
the fish store, Angelo Santoro, keeps asking Mickey to
place bets for him and Angelo keeps losing. As Angelo gets
further in the hole, his bad luck is turning out to be
Mickey’s too.
Now Mickey’s got his bookie after him
and Angelo’s showing him the butt of his pistol rather
than paying him back. So when his best friend, Chris, asks
Mickey to join him on a can’t-lose caper, Mickey decides
to go along. But, surefire schemes often have a way of
backfiring, and this one is sending Mickey into an
uncharted part of Brooklyn, where fish like Chris and
Mickey have trouble just staying alive.