Jimmy (Ledger) is a likeable guy who hustles outside a strip club and dreams of moving up the crime career ladder. One night the local crime boss (Brown) offers him a simple job: deliver $10,000 to a contact a short drive away.
Not unexpectedly, things go wrong when two street kids rip off the cash, and Jimmy has to get involved in a bank robbery to recover Pando's money. Along the way he falls for Alex (Byrne), a sweet girl from the country who encourages him to go straight.