Young Anthony Soprano is growing up amid one of Newark's most turbulent periods, maturing into a man just as rival gangsters begin to challenge the all-powerful DiMeo crime family's grip on the increasingly racially divided city. Dickie Moltisanti, the uncle he idolizes, is caught up in the changing times, struggling to balance his career and family duties, and his influence over his nephew will help shape the impressionable adolescent into the all-powerful mob boss we'll come to know as Tony Soprano.