Harry Dean's plan to steal a statue from one of the world's richest men is missing one of the world's richest men is missing one final component -- the participation of a beautiful woman to act as his gambit. In Nicole, he meets someone who appears to be the perfect candidate, but Harry himself becomes enraptured with her, causing his plan to take a series of wrong turns.

哈利·迪恩(科林·費斯)在一家英國的藝術畫廊工作。步入中年的他在生活和工作中遇到諸多不順。 他的上司沙班達爾勳爵(阿倫·裏克曼)換著法兒折磨他，令哈利深惡痛絕。最終哈利想到了一個“完美的複仇普蘭(plan)”，要把一件假的莫奈油畫賣給他 的上司，不過這項計劃需要一名德克薩斯的牛仔女郎(卡梅隆·迪亞茲)的幫助。盡管，在哈利的腦子當中，這個計劃運行得完美無缺，但在執行過程中哈利遇到了 許許多多意想不到的麻煩，其中之一就是，他似乎愛上了自己雇來的那名助手。