Walsh is a college lad who shatters his father's dreams when he is basically expelled from Oxford University for being a bit of an upstart. At a low point in his life, he decides to get involved with a notorious gang of jewel thieves. Even after being injured in a jewel heist getaway at a warehouse, he refuses to learn his lesson and continues on with even more sordid schemes and activities, the trail of which eventually leads him back to his father.