A low-paid security guard finds himself in grave danger when his out of hours surveillance obsession uncovers police corruption and murder in a regional Australian town. Idiosyncratic and insecure Les is a 45-year old security guard, working a dead-end job in the regional town of Moolanda. His childhood obsession with recording devices sees him moonlighting as a private investigator, usually taking jobs for his elderly mother's eccentric nursing home friends. During one of his illicit surveillance operations, Les witnesses a crime that puts him at the center of a violent conspiracy, from which there is nowhere to turn - least of all the police, who are possibly implicated .