Everything starts to go wrong for the price family when their 'perfect family' picture appears in the local paper. Their apparent wealth tempts Eva and John to kidnap their eldest daughter, and suddenly the Price family - middle-class, ordinary, happily existing in the London suburbs - have to deal with their world turning upside down. They gradually start to lose their house, money, status and everything they know as normal. Meanwhile the two kidnappers - the unstable Eva and her compliant boyfriend Jon -have to face the fact that 500, 000 of somone elses money might not be the answer to their problems.