Comedian Billy Connolly returns to Glasgow to star in a film written by Peter McDougall, a fellow worker in the Clydeside shipyards of his youth and screenwriter of The Long Good Friday. Connolly plays Jojo, a big-time operator in Glasgow's criminal underworld, who masterminds a daring bank robbery. But his steps are dogged by a smart young police officer who also happens to be his son-in-law.

Night nurse Elaine Dobbs may be overworked and underpaid, but she has created a very special atmosphere in her ward and is extremely attentive to her patients. However, rather too many of them are dying.