Mike Balmayne, a larger than life hard-working, hard-playing oil executive, plans a well-earned holiday with his wife but unwittingly gets entangled with some shady characters involved in international crime. After extricating himself from potential danger he returns to his oil business. Through a chain of events involving poor health and a bad choice of business partner, he loses the business he built up over years. His world and that of his family, collapses around him. Desperate situations sometimes require desperate solutions, which leads him back to his criminal connections. He hatches an ingenious but high-risk plan to recover his financial losses and take revenge on his business partner. However, his principal intent is to ensure that his actions do not cause any detriment to innocent people, and he plans on being able extricate himself on completion unscathed. To do this, he must play with and against the criminal elements and the authorities of several countries. Will he succeed?