Pete `Muscles` Hicks is a shady crook on the run from an angry boss. When he settles into his latest hideout he doesn`t expect to have police officer, Mike Allen, joining him. As the new flatmates get acquainted with each other on a night out, a pair of bungling burglars break into their apartment...and discover a little more in store than the shining silverware they came for. What follows are an unpredictable 24 hours in which hare-brained schemes and unexpected guests entangle them all in one big mess of ignorance, stupidity and survival...and all in one apartment.