In a misguided attempt to protect his family and pay back gambling debts to the local Mobster Jimbo robs a fish market which is coincidentally owned by the same Mobster. On the run Jimbo is cornered in a local curio shop where he takes hostage an assortment of colourful characters including a man who may be his illegitimate father. 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 captives.