A fisherman, turned, rum-runner forges a dangerous sting-like plan that has untold obstacles, but first he must outsmart and battle a vicious gangster, who wants to kill him and take over his plan.

SYNOPSIS:

A story that has never really been told. Joseph (Foggy Joe) Bucolo, an adopted, thirty-year-old fisherman and oyster pirate, who began running booze up Rhode Island’s Seaconnet River in the 1920's, shortly after the Volstead Act was enacted.

Strong here are the crisp images of openly expressed male camaraderie. The relationships shared by these life-long friends are flavored with their flawed, superstitious, comical, and wanton lust for life. All father figures to Foggy Joe.

In many ways, they were the modern Corsairs of the Spanish Main–with their fast, sleek rum boats trying to outrun the Coast Guard and the hijackers. These rum runners lived in that boldness of the pirates of yesteryear––as romantic buccaneers flying the “Jolly Roger Flag” of contraband liquor.

However, by the spring of 1925 in Rhode Island, the setting of this story, rum running is a mature and dangerous industry, not the lark it once was for Joe and his gang of hard-drinking and hard-living Swamp-Yankee fishermen. The Coast Guard is blowing rum boats out of the water. For Joe and his gang, the fun is gone.

To make matters worse, Joe's rival, Collector Joliyet, a ruthless Chicago gangster wants to take over Joe’s rum-running activities. He beats up Joe’s friends, hijacks Joe’s inventory, and he keeps the Coast Guard informed about Joe’s activities. And worse of all, he murders Joe’s sidekick, Sammy, or so Joe and his gang believe. However, Sammy is murdered by Tiverton’s Chief of Police, who also wants Joe's love interest.

Upon the death of Sammy, Joe and the gang agree to quit rum running, but only after one last “bang-in”—a daring sting-like operation that will feather the nests of all the gang.

It’s a wild plan wrought with logistical challenges and complicated by small-town jealousies, especially that of the local Police Chief, who will stop at nothing to ruin Joe.

Finally, under cover of a wild Nor’easter, Joe and Captain Durall pilot this Canadian two-hundred-foot converted lumber-carrier from “Rum Row” right up the Seaconnet River to the small river-side fishing community of Tiverton, where the entire cargo of liquor is off loaded in one fell swoop into the wet-cellar of the First Riverside House of Worship.

At the same time, this dangerous endeavor also incorporates some hilarious mis-en-scenes between the Reverend Isacc Bottomley and one of Joe’s rumrunner cohorts, Hunker, during the height of the “bang in.”

However, the Canadian lumber carrier is laden with a cargo larger than anyone anticipated, resulting in dock-side mayhem.

Then, as the ship returns to sea, the creaking First Riverside House of Worship collapses under the weight of the enormous inventory, flushing all the gang’s booze back down the Seaconnet River with the falling tide.

In the middle of this storm-drenched operation, Joe’s mettle is truly tested in a final dramatic encounter with his Chicago gangster rival, Collector Joliyet.