The year is 2048 and Britain has sunk into another recession. Steve Morrissey, a cocksure civil servant, is bored and longs for glory. When he is at last assigned a covert mission to East London to investigate possible money laundering, he plunges into the complex world of a new social order. Thelma Harrison, the local femme fatale, becomes the object of his affections and the two of them slip into discord, but what secret lies behind her dark winsome eyes?