It'd 1924, and New York is the centre of the universe. Henry Smart, on the run from Dubllin, falls on his feet. He is a hansome man with a sandwich board, behind which he staches hooch for the spekeasies on the Lower East Side. He catches the attention of the mobsters who run the district and soon there are eyes in his back and men in the shadows. It is time for him to leave, for another America...