Adel is a young criminal who carries out audacious cons with his middle-aged lover Afagh. After falling in love with the beautiful Nargess, he decides to go straight, but honest work does not come easily, and he decides to go back to the old life for one last job.
This exploration into the innermost workings of the capitalist system, looks to uncover the complex rules of the global economy including the confounding paradoxical relationship between debt accumulation and the concentration of wealth.
Amidst the streets of Auckland, Beth (Rena Owen) lives under the constant threat of her alcoholic husband, Jake (Temuera Morrison), in Lee Tamahori’s internationally-acclaimed box office triumph.
Two families, one bourgeois and intellectual and the other proletarian and fascist, both share the city of Rome. A trivial accident will bring these two polar-opposites together and set them on a collision course.