It's the start of a long, hot week in London's creative square mile Richard Tyler, a stressed-out Soho film executive with a collapsing career and an unfaithful wife, needs to cut a deal before indebted loan sharks start to cut him Lucas Fox, a young film runner, is searching for the girl of his dreams, but tangles with the same loan sharks when they turn body-snatchers Australian backpacker Malcolm Cotton hits the big time in Soho, but winds up dead in a tube station filled with butterflies And graphic designer Judy Merrigan falls in love with her charismatic Soho neighbour - only to discover the deadly power of his charms.