As the film opens, two crims — the hardened, older Vic (Eddie Marsan, Sherlock Holmes) and the younger, less confident Danny (Martin Compston, The Damned United)-- fresh from jail, deck out a vacant
apartment as a hostage room with meticulous precision.
Griffith and his wife Ida Lupino are held
hostage by the crooks, led by Michael Brandon, who plan to use the
apartment as headquarters while they pull off a big robbery.