Little Gangsters

Denny is growing up surrounded by criminals; visiting Vancouver's illegal gambling clubs looking for his drunken, abusive father; an Uncle who casts himself in the role of an aspiring pimp; his Grandma who is an East Van bootlegger; and his Godfather, Al 'the Baker' Di Napoli, who is one of two mob bosses in Vancouver. At the same time, 12 year old Denny suspects he might be going crazy as he experiences dissociative symptoms that make him believethat he is succumbing to the mental illness that runs in his family.

When his parents exile Denny to his Grandma's house for the summer of 1959, he finds a kinship with Frankie - another boy who knows he has 'bad thoughts' but who aspires to become a real gangster. Denny discovers that being a criminal keeps his madness at bay, but is that a good thing? In the midst of it all, he unexpectedly falls in love with a sweet little girl named Carrie - a girl 'of gold and porcelain' who sees Denny as her personal hero, but what...