Riff_Raff79
New York City. The Roaring Twenties. Hot Jazz, Guns and Bootleggers.
But for shopgirl Slender McNally, it's not the exhilarating life she seeks but rather one a little less chaotic. Each day, Slender struggles to keep her family together in the aftermath of a tragedy while heading off to the deli her father owned to make just enough money to keep them afloat. Her mother, rarely present, is consumed nightly with men and speakeasies while her sister, an acid-tongued, aspiring stage actress is fixated only on becoming a star.
Then one day, a routine accounting trip leads her to check up on an unsettled debt. What Slender happens upon surprises her--for a young, well-dressed man of considerable wealth has now asked her to accompany him to dinner.
Things begin to really rev and roar when Joey the Mouse arrives in a Rolls-Royce, complete with driver, and whisks her off to the finest clothing shop in New York City for a dinner dress, inexplicably transforming her into a flapper. But the move comes with a price, notably when he sneaks Slender into the hottest speakeasy in the city, The Sudsbucket, run by his boss, a celebrated gangster nicknamed Soapy Callahan on account of his public front as a soap and perfume salesman. So, when Slender discovers the intentions of Joey the Mouse, she wants out. But what Joey doesn't tell her that first night at The Sudsbucket is that he has just pulled her into the middle of a turf war and has a plan for her whether she likes it or not...because Soapy Callahan is expanding his bootlegging empire and he wants Slender's deli.
And the boss gets what he wants.