Synopsis

Chicago, the third week of November, 1932. Acting on an anonymous tip, Eliot Ness and his men raided a warehouse to find it filled to the brim with champagne. The crates held nothing but bottles destined for New Year's celebrations. Ness had the warehouse owner, Michel Viton, taken into custody, though he was later released. Birdie, a woman who was deaf and mute, then escorted Viton to his employer, Edmund Wald, a bottle manufacturer. Wald, it turned out, had been the source of the tip – a means