Motherless Brooklyn

In New York, in the 50's, the private investigator Frank Minna keeps secret from his findings in his last investigation. He asks his partners and friends Lionel Essrog and Gilbert Coney to follow him while he meets the guys who hired him. But soon Minna is shot and killed by the men. Lionel, who has Tourette's Syndrome, decides to investigate the reason why his mentor and friend Minna was murdered and he finds a web of treason, secrets and powerful men behind the Construction Code in New York.