It's 1997 and into a dizzy world of glamour and false promises comes Cass, a recent graduate. Innocent publishing appears perfect – but behind cool Britannia lurks a much darker place.
Olly Pickering (Stuart Townsend) é um talentoso escritor que está à beira do fracasso total. Até que reencontra um velho amigo da faculdade que não via há 5 anos, que o convida a ser seu padrinho de casamento. Olly decide ir à festa de noivado, onde conhece a mulher dos seus sonhos. O problema é que ela é Sarah Marie Barker (Amy Smart), a noiva de seu amigo. Incentivado por Murray (Seth Green), seu companheiro de baladas, Olly decide lutar por Sarah e mostrar a ela o mulherengo que é seu noivo.
A chance meeting between British nobleman and lovely young Mistral foils a plot by her manipulating Aunt Emilie to avenge the death of her sister, Mistral's mother, who died in childbirth. But when an unscrupulous blackmailer and a rapacious Rajah enter the plot, the growing attraction between Lord and convent girl becomes yet more fraught with Danger.
Two out-of-work actors -- the anxious, luckless Marwood and his acerbic, alcoholic friend, Withnail -- spend their days drifting between their squalid flat, the unemployment office and the pub. When they take a holiday "by mistake" at the country house of Withnail's flamboyantly gay uncle, Monty, they encounter the unpleasant side of the English countryside: tedium, terrifying locals and torrential rain.
