Eddie Carbone is a longshoreman and a straightforward man, with a strong sense of decency and of honour. For Eddie, it`s a privilege to take in his wife`s cousins, straight off the boat from Italy. But, as his niece begins to fall for one of them, it`s clear that it`s not just, as Eddie claims, that he`s too strange, too sissy, too careless for her, but that something bigger, deeper is wrong, and wrong inside Eddie, in a way he can`t face. Something which threatens the happiness of their whole family.

Afterword by Arthur Miller.