A motley group of London con artists pull of a series of daring and intricate stings.

France, 1914, during World War I. On Christmas Eve, an extraordinary event takes place in the bloody no man's land that the French and the Scots dispute with the Germans…

Two private bankers, Alistair and Jamie, who have the world at their feet get their kicks from playing a 12 hour game of hunt, hide and seek with people from the margins of society. Their next target is Sean Macdonald a parentless teenager who lives with his sister on a housing estate on the outskirts of Edinburgh. She's in debt, he's going nowhere fast. Sean agrees to play for cash.

Although she's been dead for six months, Martin's mother still watches his every move. It seems he can't do anything right and his odd behaviour is getting worse. He just wants to get rid of her, but will a fish and a nutter like Michelle be the answer?