In the aftermath of World War II, when the Sicilians were pouring onto boats to head to America, Don Lambrini accidentally boarded an all-inclusive cruise to Blackpool. Having built a mafia empire, and with tentative truces between the other 17 Northern families, his late-life assassination kicks off a chain of events that has families feuding, and the Lambrini gang out for revenge against the instigator, sexual deviant Fray Bentos.