SET IN CHARLESTOWN, MASSACHUSETTS, TOWNIES TELLS THE GRITTY, URBAN STORY OF MICKEY CALLAGHAN (O'DEA), A GIFTED CHAMPION BOXER AND CRIMINAL MASTERMIND WHO RETURNS TO THE STREETS AFTER A 2-YEAR JAIL SENTENCE. HE DREAMS OF STARTING OVER IN FLORIDA, BUT KNOWING HIS HOT-HEADED COUSINS WILL BE SLAUGHTERED IN HIS ABSENCE, MICKEY IS FORCED TO STAY AND LOOK AFTER THEM. FOLLOWED CONSTANTLY BY THE FBI, MICKEY IS HAILED AS THE HEIR TO HIS FATHER'S POWER AND RESPECT, THE ONE WHO WILL LEAD HIS COUSINS TO OVERTHROW AND RULE THE BOSTON UNDERWORLD, FAR MORE IMPORTANT THAN WHAT MICKEY WANTS TO BELIEVE--UNTIL A TRUCE ORDERED BY MARTY FLANNAGAN (PETER GREENE) IS BROKEN AND MICKEY MUST LEARN TO OVERCOME HIS DEEP FEAR OF ACCEPTING FATE IN ONE LAST SHOT AT GETTING OUT AND GETTING EVEN.