Alto (2015) Timeline Explained – Every Event in Order

Frankie becomes a suspect because she has direct connections to people within the mob circle through her sister Heather and her new relationship with Nicolette. When someone plots to take out Nicolette's father, the mob investigates anyone with recent ties to their world, and Frankie's involvement with Nicolette makes her a person of interest despite having nothing to do with the plot.

Foreshadowing: Her father's secret role as a bookmaker, revealed later, provides the actual connection that puts her family in the mob's orbit.

• mob suspect
• Nicolette father
• plot against mob boss
• Frankie investigation

Nicolette is genuinely attracted to Frankie and sees helping her music career as a way to build a connection while also giving Frankie something she wants. As the daughter of a powerful mob boss, Nicolette has the influence to open doors in the entertainment world, and she uses this to create opportunities for Frankie while pursuing their romantic relationship.

Foreshadowing: Their meeting at the funeral establishes Nicolette's position of power within the mob world that enables her to make these offers.

• Nicolette help
• Mob Hit TV show
• Frankie music career
• mob connections

Heather's obsession with the mob lifestyle drives her to push Frankie toward the funeral, seeing it as an opportunity for Frankie to meet powerful people who could help her music career. Heather views the mob world as glamorous and believes connections made there could launch Frankie's band to bigger stages.

Foreshadowing: This sets up the chain of events that brings Frankie into Nicolette's orbit.

• Heather mob obsession
• mob funeral
• Frankie music opportunity
• Del Vecchio sisters

Nicolette's father is the powerful Brooklyn mafia boss whose funeral Frankie attends. He remains largely in the background as a figure of power, but his criminal organization drives much of the story's tension. A plot to take him out creates the danger that puts Frankie under suspicion.

Foreshadowing: Nicolette's position as his daughter explains why she has the influence to help Frankie get on Mob Hit.

• Nicolette father
• Brooklyn mob boss
• mafia boss
• mob family

Frankie's father Mike Del Vecchio is revealed to be a bookmaker for Nicolette's father, the mob boss. This secret involvement with organized crime shocks Frankie and explains why her family was drawn into the mob's circle long before she ever met Nicolette.

Foreshadowing: This revelation comes after Frankie is already suspected of involvement in the plot against Nicolette's father, creating a devastating family betrayal.

• Mike Del Vecchio
• bookmaker
• Frankie father
• mob connection
• Del Vecchio family secret

Frankie ends her engagement because she realizes her true feelings are for Nicolette. Throughout the film, she struggles with the pull between her conventional life with her fiancé and the deepening romantic connection with Nicolette. Ultimately, she chooses authenticity and love over the secure but unfulfilling future she had planned.

Foreshadowing: This decision represents the culmination of Frankie's journey toward self-authorship that the film explores from the beginning.

• Frankie engagement ended
• choose Nicolette
• Frankie leaves fiancé
• love vs security

Frankie finds a dead body in her rental car by chance, this random, unlucky event serves as the inciting incident that pulls her into the criminal underworld. Instead of ignoring it, she chooses to do the right thing and turn the body over to police, which sets the entire mob storyline in motion.

Foreshadowing: This incident marks the first moment Frankie's ordinary life intersects with the criminal world she would later become entangled in.

• dead body rental car
• Frankie finds body
• inciting incident
• crime storyline

Both families closely watch and react to the romantic connection between Frankie and Nicolette. The relationship creates social turmoil as Frankie’s fiancé and both families must grapple with the unexpected pairing. The film shows both families eventually needing to decide whether to accept their bond despite the complicated circumstances.

Foreshadowing: The final scenes focus on both women seeking parental support as they navigate coming out and the risks associated with their relationship.

• family reaction
• Frankie Nicolette relationship
• parents accept
• coming out
• two families

Yes, Frankie is ultimately cleared of direct involvement in the plot against Nicolette's father by the authorities. Though she was suspected due to her connections, the investigation proves she had nothing to do with the criminal scheme. However, the sense of betrayal from learning about her father's secret life lingers even after she is cleared.

Foreshadowing: Her clearance allows the focus to shift toward her personal relationships and the choice between her old life and her new love.

• Frankie cleared
• mob investigation
• police clearance
• Frankie innocence

Mob Hit is a popular television show that represents a major opportunity for Frankie to gain widespread exposure for her music career. Nicolette uses her influence as the mob boss's daughter to arrange this appearance, linking Frankie's artistic ambitions to the criminal world she's stumbled into.

Foreshadowing: This opportunity is one of the main ways Nicolette tries to help Frankie, creating a connection between mob power and Frankie's dreams.

• Mob Hit TV show
• Frankie music exposure
• television performance
• breakthrough opportunity