Break the Rule. Meet God. We’ll Arrange the Meeting.

Pittsburgh, winter of 1989. Pietro “Petey the Baker” Santino, a soldier in the LaRocca mafia family, is caught embezzling from the betting book to pay for his 4-year-old daughter Maria's dialysis—breaking Rule 5: “Never use the business for personal gain.”

Capo Salvatore “Salvo” LaRocca orders Daniel Moretti, the family's driver and trusted confidant, to make Pietro disappear as an example. Pietro's Buick is found abandoned on the Monongahela River with his daughter's hospital bracelet, a farewell cassette tape, and no body. Everyone assumes Daniel carried out the execution.

But Daniel did not kill Pietro. Using his own savings, he secretly paid off Maria's treatment, faked Pietro's disappearance, and relocated Pietro and his daughter to Florida under new identities. Daniel lived as a ghost, letting the mafia and the police believe he was a ruthless killer—all to save a child.

Even Salvo never discovered the truth. Daniel sacrificed his reputation, freedom, and life for Maria, proving that sometimes the most dangerous rule isn’t the one you break… it’s the one you pretend to follow when no one is watching.

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