Carlito is sentenced five years in prison. Later on he repents his crimes and becomes a straight person, but everyone around him tries to get him back to break the law. Among those are his nephew who commits a crime and asks him to cover it up, as well as a group of gangsters who believe he murdered...Read more their leader, and are trying to take revenge on him. He must take care of all those troubles before starting a new life.
Set in the 1960s, after serving time in a New York prison, Carlito Brigante reunites with his fellow inmates Earl and Rocco with plans to seize control of the drug trade in Harlem, which gets them into a power conflict with the Italian mafia and black gangsters.