To Adrian Powell, the easiest way to get what he wants is to simply take it, and the quickest way to deal with an obstacle in his path is to destroy it. After forming a lawless alliance with his two closest friends, Willy and Riley, Adrian Powell makes himself the most feared man in Chalvey. But he then tries to expand his criminal enterprise by stealing a kilo of cocaine from a dealer in Slough, then eighty thousand Pounds from another, which leads the dealers to join forces in a move to have him eliminated. To get the job done, they turn to a corrupt police inspector named Ray Warran, who owes them favours. Warran has no interest in committing a murder, so he sets out to concoct a fraudulent case against Powell that will get him locked up for life. Warran and Powell soon find themselves drawn into a desperate game of cat-and-mouse, but quickly become their own worst enemies by making one reckless decision after another, until both their lives are in danger of collapse. When the two men end up alone and out of options, they both realise that any hope of redemption for them has fallen beyond their reach, and their karmic debts have now come due.