A look at one of the modern marvels of the 20th century: the city of Las Vegas, Nevada. The story of the glittering city in the middle of nowhere is told, from its humble beginnings as a Mormon cow town to its transformation into a Mafia haven to its role today as a high tech adult fantasy land.
In order to pay off a gambling debt to the mob, Vitelli agrees to kill a Chinese unknown to him. Against all odds he succeeds in killing the man, but he gets severely wounded during his flight. But the gangsters turn against him as they had not expected him to survive the assassination and Vitelli is forced to kill these men too. Ben Gazzara delivered a lifelike impersonation of a simple man who found his happiness in running a third-rate strip bar and who gets caught in something that is much too big for him, sometimes he does not even seem to understand the whole meaning of it.