Ex-con Paul is desperately trying to keep his business, Ace Decorators, afloat. His partner, Sheila, wants him to give up and take a paid job with his previous employers, the notorious King brothers, but Paul refuses to abandon his workmates – sweet and bookish stoner Dino and volatile Terry – who he met in prison. Two potential contracts stand between them and oblivion. But one depends on Paul winning over the obnoxious, racist site manager of a dodgy estate and the other seems to have been sewn up already by the King brothers.