In the mid-sixties, a young Huyton lad is left for dead in a gutter. John Kelly's attackers had been hired by a rich businessman, whose ex-girlfriend was going out with the young man now fighting for his life. Kelly spends the rest of his life on a relentless, ruthless and unforgettable mission of revenge. It takes him from one of Liverpool's poorest and toughest council estates to a multimillion pound empire and a lifestyle that is beyond most people's wildest dreams.