Dick Hurt - a broke, alcoholic, pill-popping private detective - is drowning his sorrows with whisky and snooker (and questioning his sanity with each repeated occurrence of his recently murdered girlfriend, Sophie (Kirsty Mather) when he receives a phone call one night from a wealthy businessman, Mr. Fox, offering him a job...The handsomely paid assignment is simple: follow Fox's young, beautiful fiancée, Nadin (Aisling Knight).