Pleasant Avenue: The Way it Was:

In 1930, a six-year-old boy named Donato, looks out of his bedroom window and witnesses a murder. He is terrified when questioned by the police so he refuses to identify the shooter, and a friendly close allegiance develops between Donato and the mafia hit man, Richie Rio. Donato struggles to survive in New York City's East Harlem, an environment plagued with roaches, bed bugs and rats running around a four room cold water flat, which he shares with his six brothers and three sisters. Donat...