Two suicidal strangers, failing actor Owen Chard and traumatised Ukrainian refugee Becky Letts, postpone death on the Humber to honey-trap men. They make easy money zig zagging across the north of England until they reach Manchester when a blackmailing civil servant dies on Becky in a hotel room. Owen, seduced by life-changing megabucks, fakes his death and steals the dead man’s identity to con a quarter of million quid from a brain-damaged hero’s trust fund. His impersonation is good, but doesn’t fool a cynical cop, or the deceased’s crazy self-harming granddaughter. Putin’s pals, in the city sponsoring a world boxing championship showdown, are demanding the blackmailer’s sex-pest list with menaces. Will Owen and Becky rediscover their humanity in Manchester or drown in a sea of corruption and criminality?