2 rival corporate managers are fired on same day after 30 years service. They come up with a scheme to reward themselves at an ungrateful company's expense.
Rodney David Wingfield was a prolific writer of radio crime plays and comedy scripts, some for the late Kenneth Williams, star of the Carry On films. His crime novels featuring DI Jack Frost have been successfully adapted for television as A Touch of Frost starring David Jason. Wingfield was a modest man, shunning the London publicity scene in favour of a quite life in Basildon, Essex, with his wife of 52 years (died 2004) and only son.
Davenport and Desmond are in charge of the accounts department at Webster & Co. They have been warring with each other for thirty-five years, but are shocked when the new boss decides to replace them with a computer genius. With only one day left before they leave the firm, they decide to bury the hatchet and exploit an opportunity to enrich themselves......