This film is about life of a notorious mafia. When he was a child, Henry Hill (Ray Liotta) has dreamed of becoming a gangster. He admired the Lucchese gangster family. In 1955, Henry and his friend Tommy DeVito (Joe Pesci) left school to work for the Lucchese family. Tycoon Paul Cicero and Jimmy Conway (Robert De Niro), his assistant, gradually trained Henry to become the notorious mafia. So that when he grew up, Henry became a professional gangster.