The King of Warsaw is a gangster story set in Warsaw in 1937. It talks about violence, the lust for power and the pursuit of maintaining it at all costs. It's a story of the ups and downs of the mafia that used to sow fear and submission in the Poland's capital before the outbreak of World War II. The main character, is Jakub Szapiro, a Jewish gangster-boxer drawn into a political conspiracy and gangster bloodletting that may decide the fate of the nation.