Womanising, cheating and gambling, what a mix! Andy Clewer, self-made man and successful entrepreneur has a need for beautiful women and gambling, is arrogant with a mean streak and thinks of himself first and foremost. Brought up in South London he has never forgotten how, with no money in his pockets, the streets were the only place to hang out.

Through his company Clewer Alternatives, a provider of natural medicines, he owns a string of race horses funded using money from his company. He has the chance to win one of the most valuable and prestigious steeplechases in the racing calendar but he is less successful at gambling than at business and has been taking money out of the company to pay his debts.

He starts a steamy relationship with the young wife of one of his company's major clients. Spending money that he doesn't have on his liaison and in debt to the bank and the betting exchange, he turns to her wealthy husband to help him out of his financial problems.

He believes that he has kept his affair from common knowledge. However, after a chance conversation at the golf club and his benefactor's suspicions of his wife's whereabouts on several occasions, the secret affair is out in the open. Andy's greed leads him to take one gambling risk too many with borrowed money. His downfall is plotted by the disgruntled Finance Director of Clewer Alternatives, who joins with the cuckolded husband to destroy Andy Clewer and wrest the company from him. Andy's wife, for so long either ignored or taken for granted, delights in joining the plot to bring down her husband.