- Harry Gillespie, book keeper for gangsters, skims money from each of his clients and escapes to a remote Scottish fishing village with Ebony, an Edinburgh tart he has befriended. Through Harry, Ebony soon discovers it is only a matter of time before Harry is tracked down and heavies are sent to get him. She tries to convince him that they should run away to Cuba, but Harry is reluctant to leave the country. Day by Day Harry's past catches up with him. Bingo, a Glaswegian racketeer, arrives and tortures Harry until he agrees to return the money. In a rowing boat fight, Harry and Ebony drown Bingo and bury him in the dunes. It is only a matter of time before Harry is found and dealt with, But Harry and Ebony surprise themselves when they make sure that none of their pursuers return to the mainland.—Anonymous
- Harry, a meek-mannered and introverted bookkeeper, finally decides that after making all his criminal clients rich, he ought to think about himself, so takes all the money he skimmed off from them over the years and runs off to Argyll on the Western coast of Scotland, together with his girlfriend Ebony, whom he met in a bar and who was then working in a massage parlor. She begged him to take them to Cuba but he rents a small, cheap flat in a local town and he wants to wait and see whether they have discovered what he has then. A few days later, he receives a postcard at their new address, on which the sole message is a black spot. This heralds the advent of a brutal thug called Bingo who tortures Harry until he reveals where he has hidden the stolen money. This involves a trip in a small rowing boat with Harry and Ebony, who eventually manage to drown Bingo and get his body ashore, where they bury it in a shallow grave in the sand dunes.
Shortly afterwards, a second postcard arrives that is identical to the first and this time their visitor is Luc from the Netherlands, who eventually meets his death in a grassy area that is never mown.
Sadly, this is not the last of their unwelcome visitors with homicidal intentions.A German woman called Babette arrives all the way from the Reeperbahn, Hamburgs notorious red-light district, in order to force Harry to return to her the hundred, thousand DMs that he had stolen from her. However, with two killings under his belt, he has become quite savvy and realises that even if the agreed to this demand, she would still hire a contract killer to murder him, in order to take her revenge. He and Ebony agree to murder her but at the last moment she cannot bring herself to take part and Harry strikes her head repeatedly with a gun till she is dead.
All this killing is taking a toll on the relationship between Ebony and Harry, and she is so frightened that she makes a call to the man, from whom she had run away and this results in a messy shoot-out where it is Ebony who kills this unwelcome intruder in a graveyard, where the final resolution takes place.
A low-budget but well shot and acted offering, with only six principal actors and shot in an economical style with minimal dialogue, and entirely on location in Argyll, where the beautiful countryside provides the background to this tragic tale of two lost souls.
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