Heavy Wallace pretends to win a fortune to keep from being killed and to meet a girl. But the fans may kill him first.
Heavy Wallace is eighteen and lives on his own in Sydney. He desperately wants to find a true friend but keeps falling in with the wrong crowd, who use him and give nothing back. A chance meeting on a doomed plane ride changes him and he is determined to turn his life around, to meet the right girl and rid himself of the gang who want to kill him. The logical thing to do is to say he has won a fortune. That should fix everything, right?
By becoming an accidental TV celebrity he is chased by an ever increasing crowd of fans and more and more criminals and everyone wants him, except the girl. His new world of pretend wealth is full crooks, scammers and phonies. Will he get swallowed up by this fake world? Can he make incredibly tough choices and survive the most brilliant criminals to stay alive and get that girl?