At age sixteen Bobby is excited to go to New York City on his own. He is amazed when a foreign woman offers him a handful of ancient gold coins. He goes to his aunt's apartment nearby to get money to pay, but when he returns the woman is dead, her throat cut. A girl is keening over her body. The girl is beautiful, but she and the coins seem to get Bobby and his family into trouble. He gets beaten up three times. His eccentric family hatches a plan...