Snake in the Grass - Rewrite

Giuseppe "Joe" Calabrese grew up in Melbourne among the Onorata Società, a branch of the ‛Ndrangheta, knowing them as neighbours and family friends; not the vicious Mafia thugs the media says they are.

As he grows up, he truly sees them more and more this way, and begins to hate them for what they do; especially when his father is beaten to death for refusing to pay them protection money.

Joe decides to be a policeman, a decision that earns him disapproval from his fellow Italians; they see him as a traitor to his own people. So he is glad when he is transferred to Geelong.

However, when an opportunity arises to infiltrate the organisation of the very man who ordered his father's death, Joe jumps at the chance to avenge his father and see these men brought to justice.