This film tells the incredible true story of Jake a small time dealer, grown up in the care system in an impoverished English coastal town. As a turf war brews around him, his world is thrown into complete chaos when he inadvertently befriends a neglected 9-year-old girl, Jade, and takes her home out of harm's way. A fight erupts between Jake and her volatile alcoholic father resulting in the dad's accidental death. Fearing that the authorities won't believe him and not wanting Jade to follow in his footsteps by entering the care system, Jake decides to try and look after the girl by himself. But can a criminal from the bottom rung of society's ladder ever do the right thing in the eyes of authority?