A man walks into a bar. Sounds like the start of a joke but ageing gangster Jack isn't laughing. After a life of time spent at the sharp end he's a haunted man. Tonight he'll meet his old accomplice, 'Mickey the mimic', a master forger who, years before, turned his back on the life. Wary at first, the two men start to reminisce - the jobs they pulled, the people they knew, the reputations they acquired. But as Jack and Mickey discuss their last scam (multiple counterfeit copies of Lucian Freud's portrait of Francis Bacon) it becomes clear that everything is not as it seems.
