Kip Largo, a forty-eight-year-old hereditary swindler, having been released from prison where he served time for fraud, finally decides to start a new life - to become an honest man and law-abiding citizen. However, he soon learns that his son Toby owes a large sum to the leader of the Russian mafia in San Francisco, and in order to help the young man out, he again takes up his old craft. Kip conceives a grandiose scam and involves his friend, a talented programmer and woman, in it. whom he loved seventeen years ago. The game is very risky, but the stakes are high: the life of the only son and a jackpot of 20 million dollars are at stake...