Recently fired from a skiffle band and in search of work, Francis Henshall finds himself inadvertently employed by two small-time rival gangsters Roscoe Crabbe and Stanley Stubbers.  Fighting a mounting sense of confusion, Francis goes out of his way to serve both bosses. But with the distractions of a pneumatic bookkeeper, a self-important actor and select members of the criminal fraternity (not to mention his own mammoth appetite) to contend with, how long can he keep them apart?