King Zeno

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>New Orleans 1918: A new American music is born prostitution is outlawed and the police retake the streets with maximum violence. In the Ninth Ward laborers break ground on a gigantic canal that will split the city-a work of staggering human ingenuity intended to restore New Orleans's faded mercantile glory.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>As the war ends and a prosperous new age dawns everything is thrown into chaos by a series of ax murderers which scramble the fates of three people from different corners of town. Detective William Bastrop is an army veteran haunted by an act of wartime cowardice and recklessly bent on redemption. Isadore Zeno is a jazz cornetist with a dangerous side hustle. Beatrice Vizzini is the widow of a crime boss who yearns to take the family business straight. But in New Orleans a city built on swamp nothing stays buried long.</span></p>