The film follows Jimbo who robs a fish market in a misguided attempt to protect his family and pay back gambling debts to the local Mobster. However, it is coincidentally owned by the same Mobster. On the run, he takes hostage an assortment of colorful characters, including Maguire, who may be his illegitimate father in a local curio shop. Surrounded by the Police, the SAS, and the Mobster's crew, the young man must find a way out of his precarious predicament with the help of his oddball capt.