Amsterdam Vallon, an Irish-American immigrant, is released from prison after fifteen years, and returns to the Five Points bent on revenge against "Bill the Butcher", the powerful anti-immigrant gang leader who killed his father. The struggle reaches a fevered crescendo during the 1863 Civil War Draft Riots -- the most explosive episode of urban unrest the American nation had yet seen.
Amsterdam Vallon, an Irish-American immigrant, is released from prison after fifteen years, and returns to the Five Points bent on revenge against "Bill the Butcher", the powerful anti-immigrant gang leader who killed his father. The struggle reaches a fevered crescendo during the 1863 Civil War Draft Riots -- the most explosive episode of urban unrest the American nation had yet seen.
