In the early 1860s, the Five Points district of Lower Manhattan is a lawless haven controlled by ruthless Nativist Bill "The Butcher" Cutting. Sixteen years after his father's brutal murder at Bill's hands, Amsterdam Vallon, an orphaned Irish-American, returns to avenge his death, but finds the area has changed and he must navigate its corrupt hierarchy to achieve his goal.

Gangs of New York
In the midst of 1862, a vengeful Amsterdam Vallon infiltrates the notorious Five Points neighborhood of New York City, driven by a burning desire to exact revenge on Bill the Butcher, the merciless leader who brutally murdered his father.