John Cummings (Richard Robin Hood Todd) is one of life's near failures. A toiletry salesman, he buys a flash car he cannot afford to insure. When a gang running a car theft racket steals it, he vows to retrieve it whatever the cost - his job, his family and his dignity. He begins to delve into a sinister criminal underworld with potentially lethal consequences.

This stark British thriller features Sellers in his first dramatic role as Cummings' nemesis, a gangland villain.