After two decades in prison, old mobster, NICO "CHICKIE" CICCOLINI, is finally a free man. But not for long. His daughter, GABRIELLA, has put him into a nursing home, which, in Chickie's mind, is worse than getting tossed back into the can. The nursing home, called THE VILLAS, is a pretty nice place, but that doesn't matter to Chickie. He decides to bust out and nearly escapes when he bumps into an old "business associate" - JOSEPH "NOSTRILS" MAZZONE, a Villas resident. Nostrils tells Chickie how the Villas needs to "get organized" - how, at the Villas, he could "get respect" like the old days, make money and score with the ladies. Intrigued, Chickie changes his mind and moves into his Villas pad, which he spruces up with one-armed bandits and pictures of the Blessed Mother. Chickie quickly encounters friction from Villas Director, BONNIE BURNS, the perky enforcer of all nursing-home rules.