A con man, Irving Rosenfeld, along with his seductive British partner Sydney Prosser is forced to work for a wild FBI agent Richie DiMaso. DiMaso pushes them into a world of Jersey powerbrokers and mafia.

Con man Irving Rosenfeld and his mistress and accomplice Sydney Prosser are forced by an FBI agent to work with the police to nab a politician. Rosenfeld's mission is to appease Mayor Carmine Polito and then get him to accept corrupt money. Irving however quickly discovers that Carmine is not a bad person and that Agent DiMaso wants to catch the politician red-handed just to boost his reputation. Rosenfeld and Prosser must now work with the mafia and bandits far more dangerous than those they usually associate with to close the case, which becomes more and more complex as the days go by.