It\'s 1899.
Together, in the wide-open, unregulated garment industry of that explosive time, the boys manage to become teenage businessmen.
Manhattan, the island, is the Bangladesh of 1905.
Overcoming every obstacle, Tony finds a partnership to last a lifetime in his friend Harry, whose family are Jews from Vilna in the cloth trade.
An illegal immigrant, Tony LaStoria, just ten years old, an unaccompanied minor, lands in New York and has to make his way in the world\'s greatest city.
It\'s 1899