Frank O’Brien is a part-time stucco-worker with spare time to follow his second profession as small-time burglar and to take on easy commissions – like when his dim-witted cousin asks him to steal a precious painting and deliver it to a client who lives in a millionaires’ enclave on an island off the coast of New England …

Roz calls herself Frank’s girlfriend, but she’s fed up with these ‘commissions’: Frank has to swear solemnly that this will be his very last break-in. The two of them shack up in an empty, luxurious house on the beach on the exclusive island without knowing that someone’s in hot pursuit …