Mafia 3 is set in the year 1968, and Lincoln Clay, after years of war in Vietnam, realizes a harsh truth: Family isn’t who you’re born with, it’s who you’d die for. Returning to his home in New Bordeaux, Lincoln decides to escape his criminal past. However, when the Italian Mafia betrays and wipes out his new family, the black mob, Lincoln embarks on a military-grade revenge mission against those responsible for the betrayal, building a new family upon the ashes of the old.