Danny Bonto is a mid level enforcer in the Chicago mob who has outlived his usefulness. He learns this when the feds let him listen to an undercover tape of his boss arranging to have him killed. In exchange for his providing them with much damaging information, the Feds
move him to Philadelphia and set him up in a poolroom where he quickly runs afoul of the Philadelphia mob. He hires a teen-ages to work in the poolroom whom he takes under his wing and teaches one pocket, the cr?me de la cr?me of pocket billiard games.