Gangster impresario Roch Siffredi has pre-war Marseille in the palm of his hand. When an upstart Italian mob tries to claim the French port town's vice trade for their own, the resulting gang war leaves his life in ruins. Siffredi is stripped of everything except an all-consuming vendetta against the mob leader, Valpone. Jacques Deray’s classic crime caper is a stylishly gritty sequel to his popular 1970 film Borsalino, with a superb Alain Delon reprising his role as the formidable mobster.