The movie starts off with a beautiful view of the city’s skyline, a man, standing on
top of a roof makes a reservation to a fancy hotel restaurant and once there, eyes a beautiful
blonde who is standing a couple feet away from him.
She seems to be uncomfortable by a man who keeps touching her shoulders trying to talk
to her.
In an attempt to get him off her,q back she looks at the man having dinner alone and asks
him to be her pretend boyfriend.
She identifies herself as Jess and he introduces himself as Nicky.
They drink together and have a great time.
Jess tells him she’s having a really fun time with him.
They end up going to her room, which is in the same hotel and kiss passionately.
However, it doesn't last long, a man Jess calls her husband barges in with a gun and
pins Nicky down.
Much to his and Jess’s surprise, Nicky starts telling her husband to shoot him and continues
saying provocative things.
Nicky lies about having cancer the size of a peach in his brain and gets off the hook.
As it turns out, the ‘husband’ and Jess are actually newbie thieves who were trying
to get Nicky’s money, but somehow, Nicky already knew.
He confesses that he knew she was a thief, when she stole the wallet of the man who was
hitting on her downstairs.
When asked why he still came upstairs with her, he cheekily replies by saying he had
professional curiosity and he likes a woman’s body.
Later on, Jess is walking down a street when she gets approached by Nicky, who says she
might want to grow a pair of eyes at the back of her head if she is to be a professional
con- artist.
They go to a coffee shop and Nicky tells her about his family background.
His grandfather, who used to run a crooked game in Harlem joined hands with his son,
Nicky’s father who started shilling for him.
But one day they get caught throwing signals by a mobbed up guy, who gets his gun out.
There is no way out of death, except one.
Nicky says it is the ‘Toledo Panic Button’.
Basically making your enemy believe you do not have a partner by shooting your partner.
After hearing that Nicky’s father killed his grandfather, Jess clarifies that she was
not born into this world, she was just a dyslexic foster child.
She asks him to teach her his ways and offers to pay him from a wallet she stole herself.
He takes her outside and tutors her about the intricacies of the slow human mind.
After twirling her around, he already has her watch wallet and zumba card in his hands.
He playfully tells her how to maintain eye contact, while positioning his body in a way
that lets him steal various things off of her in a second.
Jess smiles and tells him she gets it.
In the end he tells her to get their focus and she can take whatever she wants, after
which he shows her the ring he took off from her finger without her noticing.
Jess is amazed and mesmerized at his skills.
In the next scene, Nicky is in New Orleans and Jess surprisingly comes to see him.
She has already grabbed his wallet from his pocket and asks him to acknowledge her growing
skills.
She tells him she wants to be all in with him and tells him of his family history that
she found out.
He introduces her to his friend who gets her dressed in a skimpy pink dress and they get
ready to steal from a large party.
Much to everyone in Nicky’s team’s surprise, Jess is better than they expected her, she
smoothly steals rings wallet watches and other valuable items from tourists.
Nicky decides to take her in and congratulates her for becoming a criminal.
He adds to her knowledge of how scams work around crowded places, and even tells her
how credit card numbers can be found using finger strokes on ATM’s.
The man whos working on stealing from an ATM in front of them, who is known as Farhad,
finances his own gravy company through the millions he earns by ATM fraud.
He meets Jess but acts inappropriately, implying that she is a woman he would like to get with.
Jess gets annoyed at the way they talk about her as if she’s not there!
They take her to the scam agency run by Nicky and educates her of all the operations that
take place.
She sees a really pretty necklace and asks if she can keep it, but Nicky doesn't let
her.
Jess seems to have a big crush on Nicky, based on the way she smiles shyly at him from afar.
Nicky is a smart man though, he is most probably aware of her feelings.
He comes up to her later and gives her a clean ID, a clean credit card to help with future
theft.
He gets her a new apartment and she asks him to give her a ride.
After hinting that she wants him to come into her apartment, she waits for his reply.
He tells her he should take a cab instead.
Back at her new home, the doorbell rings and Nicky enters her new place and they spend
a night together.
The next day Farhad and Jess have a very entertaining conversation about Farhad’s family and then
about his friendship with Nicky.
However, they are not there to talk.
Soon they get a signal and Farhad pretends to drop to the floor with agony, while Jess
is making a ruckus about her fallen ‘husband’, the people from the agency around the fancy
looking restaurant get to work, stealing from rich people’s pockets.
The agency celebrate a ground breaking week where they were all able to make 1.2 million
dollars.
Later in bed, Jess asks Nicky to give her constructive criticism and he continues to
tell her how rare her talent is, the way she can stay calm under stressful situations is
something he has not seen in anyone but her.
It is obvious from the look in her eyes that she is flattered, but she laughs it off and
clarifies that she was talking about Pleasure.
He continues the joke by telling there are several other women who are better than her
at it.
They laugh together.
Jess then asks him why his nickname is Mellow, and although Nicky is reluctant at first,
he tells her it is because his father thought of him as a soft person and named him marsh
mellow.
The next day, they both go to watch the Super-dome with front seat tickets.
Jess confesses that she doesn't actually like football and doesn't enjoy the game.
Hearing this, Nicky slaps his forehead.
However, he is still bent on having fun, and they play a little game where they guess the
actions of people in the crowd.
The game gets a little serious when another Asian man from the crowd joins them.
They start betting big money, like 1000 dollars and then 5000 dollars for simple bets.
Nicky seems to be losing and gets up to get a drink.
But the Asian man seems to be having a lot of fun and stops him from leaving.
They bet 50 grand but Nicky loses again.
It is obvious from his facial expressions that he has a slight problem with gambling
and cannot stop himself once he starts.
He bets 100,000 dollars next, he money the whole agency chipped in to acquire.
Jess tries to top him, but at this point he is a man who is unable to listen to anyone
but his addiction.
He loses the 100 grand and by now, Jess glares at him, takes the bag and gets ready to leave.
He maneuvers around her and this time, he bets the whole bag of cash, 1.2 million dollars.
Unfortunately, much to Jess’s dismay, he loses.
The disappointment is unreal but as Nicky is walking away, he gets provoked and walks
back, Liyuan (Asian man) to double it.
This time, he says Jess will play for him, although she is livid at the idea.
He forces her to play, and surprisingly, she wins!!!
On the way back, Nicky tells her it was their plan all along.
Liyuan is a legendary gambler who bets big money like this, and Nicky had been programming
him the whole day to pick the number ‘55’ which would make him lose.
After getting the job done however, Nicky has a solemn expression on his face.
He tells the driver to pull over, gives her 80 grand and tells the driver to take her
to the airport.
The sudden breakup from Nicky startles her.
Jess cannot make any sense of what happened and cries alot.
3 years later, the scene shows a racing track in Buenos Aires.
Nicky gets approached by this European engineer, Mr Garriga who plans elaborately to scam his
competitors.
Nicky arrives at a party and starts his act.
He pretends to drink vodka martini on the rocks, which is hard alcohol and acts out
shenanigans to get a certain persons interest.
While he is walking towards a man to pick a staged fight, he encounters his old partner,
Jess, beautifully clad in a tight red dress, walking down the staircase and kisses the
man he was going to fight.
He has sudden flashbacks of the way he broke up with her and goes to the balcony to get
a breather.
Jess meets him on the balcony and tells him she’s not a thief anymore,and that the man
she is with, Rafael, is her real boyfriend.
She tells Nicky to pretend he doesn't know her because Rafael does not know about her
past.
After the talk with Jess, Nicky is not able to control his emotions and drowns them with
wine, getting stupidly drunk.
Unable to hide his anger, he walks up to Rafael Garriga and punches him, which was part of
the plan.
But of course, the plan didn’t involve him being punched this hard.
Nicky screams at Rafael for ‘stealing what was his’ and gets removed from the party.
The plan is a success however, because the man who’s attention Nicky wanted, Mr. McEwen
invites him to lunch.
The next day, Nicky meets McEwens on a resort and strikes a deal to get him the EXR, a built
in system for race cars from Rafael if he pays him 3 million euro.
Expectedly, Nicky keeps eyeing Jess who is downstairs with Rafael.
After talking to McEwens, he goes to Jess and tells her to put some clothes on.
She obviously gets offended by his lousy comment.
Jess walks away and tells him to stay away from her because Rafael is the jealous type.
Later on, while shopping, Jess witnesses a woman getting on the bus but forgetting her
bag.
She sees her home address in her wallet and walks to go find it to return the purse.
Once there, she meets Nicky.
she tricks him into believing she wants to be with him again and says some very cringe
things to her, along the line of ‘I’ll keep you safe’.
After confessing that she is playing with him, she struts away.
The next day, Nicky picks Farhad up from the airport and drops him off at a market.
There, him and Jess meet and have a conversation.
He tells Jess to accept Nicky again because he is a different man now.
He continues to give a necklace that Jess liked 3 years ago and says Nicky kept it for
her all these years.
Sitting together, Nicky persuades her that he has changed after what happened in New
Orleans.
She does not fall for it and leaves him sitting there alone.
The next scene shows a black car stopping in front of Jess.
After that she is at the doorstep of his living room, disgruntled and sad looking.
When he asks her whats wrong, she tells him to kiss her.
They again, spend the night together.
The next morning, he asks her to come with him, but she states that she cannot just trust
him.
Suddenly, the doorbell rings.
Its Rafael’s right hand man.
He comes in and lectures Nicky like a true millennial.
Jess hides all over the hotel suite and is finally able to move to the balcony.
Rafael’s man is meticulous.
He moves to the balcony to check if someone is there, but much to Nicky’s surprise,
there is no one.
Jess has flexibly moved to the next door balcony and Nicky tells her to meet him at 7.
After collecting the money from all his clients, he takes 2 huge bags up to his room and waits
for Jess to arrive.
He waits and waits but for some reason, she does not come.
Disappointed, he gets up to leave but finds her at his door.
They leave together.
The next scene does not show the protagonist, but shows a big burly man driving in his car.
He suddenly puts on a neck cast and a helmet and crashes into the car in front of him on
purpose.
As it seems, it was Nicky’s car.
At a warehouse, Rafael has Jess and him tied to chairs.
He explains that Nicky did not keep their deal, it was promised that he would sell the
fake EXR software to McEwen but Nicky actually sold the real one.
He suffocates Jess in an attempt to get Nicky talking.
He finally does and confesses that he got Rafael’s passwords from Jess, without her
even being aware.
He confesses the fact that he has been cold-heartedly using her all this time to get information,
that she was his ‘in’.
After hearing this, Rafael lets out a big laugh and calls the whole story a lie.
When asked why, he rips the tape off Jess’s mouth and she confesses to Nicky that she
was never Rafael’s girlfriend.
She was only hanging around him to steal his 200 grand watch.
After hearing some harsh truth from Jess’s mouth, Nicky’s eyes fill up with tears.
He feels like its the end of his life and states that he wants to tell the truth one
last time.
However, as he is talking, Rafael’s right hand man viciously shoots him.
Jess hold his face and tells him she loves him.
He closes his eyes.
Rafael leaves in a hurry.
Jess feels like the man who shot Nicky is coming to her and tries to attack him, but
he lightly shoves her away.
The old man turns out to be one of Nicky’s men.
This is a huge plot twist in the movie.
The man explains that he shot Nicky between the third and fourth rib, puncturing the lung,
and with the right treatment it is treatable.
Jess finds out that this is the Toledo Panic Button strategy.
The man turns out to be Nicky’s father, who abandoned him.
He leaves with the bags of money after lecturing his son about how love does not last among
thieves, but if he has made his choice, so be it.
In the end, Jess helps Nicky to the hospital while wearing the watch she wanted from Rafael.
They both laugh together in the end.