In an American town in the 1940's, Harry Allen (Chris Cooper), tired of being with his wife (who loves him but not in the way he wants) plots to kill her so he can get together with his mistress. But Harry didn't consider that his best friend Richard (Pierce Brosman) is poking his nose into his affairs...
It's the roaring seventies...lovely Martine offers her old friend Terry a lead on a surefire bank hit in London's financial district. But Terry and his small-time gang don't know that the bank's safety deposit boxes they're about to rob contain royal dirty secrets - and end up way in over their heads in a scandal involving the highest UK government circles.