When a biracial college student recruits her estranged Mafioso grandfather to seek justice for a sexual assault, this lovable odd couple must take the road trip of a lifetime, overcome their differences, and heal from their troubled pasts.
When her elite university refuses to sanction the lacrosse players who sexually assaulted her girlfriend, Mattie tracks down her long-lost grandfather Carmine in Boca Raton, Florida, to solicit his special services as an infamous mob button. She discovers her grandfather is now frail, broke, and addicted to fentanyl. After Mattie foils Carmine’s attempt to swindle her, the odd couple embarks on a road trip back to campus to dispense of her girlfriend’s attackers. En route, they bond despite their disparate cultural views. This fragile bond is imperiled when they visit her incarcerated father, and Mattie watches Carmine brutally assassinate the snitch who sent his son to prison. The battered duo arrives at Mattie’s university in Savannah, Georgia. While she shows her grandfather around the opulent campus, Carmine concludes he has no place in Mattie’s life. He abandons their mission, but Mattie remains committed to justice. When Carmine learns a disturbing fact about her past, he must decide whether the mafia is the only family he’ll stand for.
Robin wrote the Pulitzer Prize-nominated book, LOVE FOR LIBERATION, and rose from Staff Writer to Co-Executive Producer on the forthcoming Fremantle series SANDOKAN (from the producers of TRANSFORMERS and QUEEN OF THE SOUTH). After graduating from St. George’s — an elite boarding school — and NYU, Robin joined a radical circus. She led dozens of humanitarian aid missions to rebel communities in Mexico, Cuba, and Nicaragua. At Yale, she completed a PhD in political science, then taught about international affairs, history, and social inequality at several prestigious institutions. Robin reinvented herself as an artist by writing, directing, and producing the award-winning documentary BLACK AND CUBA — which was exhibited at dozens of film festivals, museums, and universities in the US and abroad. It currently streams on Tubi and Peacock. In addition, Robin has collaborated on acclaimed films for Netflix, Hulu, and PBS, was selected for the Women in Film Shorts Lab (funded by Google), and funded by the the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). Her creative work and research have brought her to over 30 countries in the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Europe. A surfing, fine art, and fashion enthusiast who speaks Spanish and French, Robin currently lives in Venice, California.
