When Carlton Crew elder statesman Graham the Munster Kinniburgh is gunned down, his comrades Mick Gatto, Mario Condello and Lewis Moran know the upstart Carl Williams has to be put in his place before they too are targeted.
Tilly Devine and her husband 'Big Jim' own Australia's largest brothel network. Kate Leigh runs a ring of speakeasies all across Sydney. The rivalry between these two crime empresses will plunge Sydney into gang war.
A charming thug, Andrew 'Benji' Veniaman, is hired to execute Mark Moran's killer. But when Benji is insulted by the Carton Crew, he forms a dangerous friendship with their rival, Carl Williams.