Frankie Olivieri works in a cardboard factory and can't read but he has a warm bed good food a clean house and plenty of sex. What else does he need? A devout Italian Catholic he leads a happy uneventful married life with six children. But when he questions the morality of church bingo during confession Father Patterson accuses him of stealing $2526.69 from the bingo funds. Two Irish detectives charge him with embezzlement and an ex-Catholic journalist alleges he belongs to the mob. Frankie's life is turned upside down. He becomes promiscuous and a born again Christian but in the end he struggles to return to his old life only to find that he can never be the same person.