 Having been  away  for some time professional killer Frankie Bono returns to New York to do another job: assassinate some mid-level mobster. Although intending to avoid unnecessary  contact  while carefully stalking his victim Bono is recognized by an old fellow from the orphanage, whose calm and unambitious citizen s life and happy marriage contrast heavily with Bono s solitary and haunted existence. Exhausted and distracted Bono makes another mistake, but his contract is not one to back out of.