Socrates, a retired schoolteacher, and Jack, a university dropout, form an unlikely friendship. With the help of a few friends, they try to recapture their economic and political ideals. However, the younger man''s past keeps resurfacing and threatens to drag him back into a dark and violent world front which he was trying to escape. The pressure on him to move back into this world steadily increases until it not only threatens him but threatens the lives of his friends.... Can they save the British economy? Can they save their ideals? But ultimately ...can they save themselves?