North Jersey mob boss Tony Soprano self-described "waste management consultant " reluctantly seeks a psychiatrist's help after blacking out. Lest he appear weak he must keep his therapy a secret from the rest of the Mob. He's stressed: his teenage daughter is giving his wife fits; his mean-spirited mother refuses to move to a retirement community; his aging Uncle Junior jealous of Tony's rise to the top won't stay in line and engineers a plot to kill Tony; and the feds armed with RICO are circling. In therapy Tony must come to terms with the circumstances of his father's death with his mother's manipulations and with his fears of death and loss of family