Sometimes 'manure happens, ' and unfortunately for business partners and best pals Steve and Harry, they're in it up to their eyeballs. With their chemical light-stick company and both of their marriages on the brink of collapse, their hoped-for success story is about to go Chapter 11. That is until a huge deal suddenly materializes and promises to change their lives forever.

In order to pay the tuition for a prestigious university in Manhattan, Brooklyn native Mike Manadoro joins up with the mob. As his assignments grow more dangerous, Mike learns the true meaning of loyalty when he gets some help from a very unlikely source and learns the meaning of true loyalty. Mike becomes torn between his traditional Italian-American neighborhood and the elite Manhattan world just across the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge.