Steve Lynch (Greco) had the perfect London life. Once a prince of the City of London, he has a beautiful house, a beautiful wife, and his fate in the palm of his hand. Now 3 years later, on the hottest day of a brutal London summer his business is failing and his bad choices are coming due. He is forced to use all his skill and confidence to save his business, and his marriage. However, in a few brief hours his world is blasted apart by bad luck, sex, death and a secret hidden in his marriage too awful to contemplate. And always the sun beats down relentlessly on that most unforgiving city, London.