Broke and about to be deported, two out-of-depth Brits rob a small-town bank for a shot at the American Dream. When the bank heist goes terribly wrong, resentments in their lifelong friendship - what they have failed to open up to each other about over the years - boil up the surface.
KEY CHARACTERS
RICHARD
Richard dreams of a better life than his Northern UK upbringing. He is a clean-cut but over-confident, selfish and troubled young man. On the day of their deportation from the US, he convinces his childhood best friend to help him rob a small-town bank. As things go wrong, Richard grapples with his guilt over his mistreatment of Mickey and his interior struggles.
ALEX
Having taken over her family’s car repair shop after the untimely loss of her sister, Alex feels the loneliness of living in the middle of nowhere. When someone finally comes in, Alex finds herself defending her family’s work place from an unappreciative customer, before making an unexpected connection.
MICKEY
This scruffy, scarred but well-intentioned man looks forward to being sent back home to the UK after hating life abroad. However, when forced to help out in a flawed bank robbery, Mickey finds himself abandoned by his best mate, Richard. Mickey is left alone to not only face the xenophobic local sheriff department, but also his own mental and emotional struggles.
LARRY
With an incompetent and prone-to-violence Sheriff for a boss, this police officer wants to deal with an aggressive hostage situation the only way he knows how: by doing things by the book.
SHERIFF MERLE
The antagonist of the film. Having been assaulted by two rude British aliens at the opening of our story, this undereducated, xenophobic, pastiche of a Sheriff becomes highly excitable when those same customers find their way into his line of sight after robbing the local bank.
RICHARD’S MUM
The mother of the story’s protagonist, Richard’s Mum provides refuge for her son’s school best friend, having learned of his abusive parents.