A View From the Bridge is the story of Eddie Carbone, an Italian-American dockworker living in Red Hook, New York. Eddie lives with his wife and their niece, Catherine, and also hosts several of his wife's cousins who are illegal immigrants from Italy. Eddie becomes obsessed with Catherine and his fixation begins a series of events that leads to his betrayal of the Italian immigrant community and his death at the hands of his wife's cousin, Marco.
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