Walking to the shops one day, fifty-year old Eugene Wren discovers an envelope on the street bulging with cash. A man plagued by a shameful addiction
- & his own good intentions
- Wren hatches a plan to find the money's rightful owner. Instead of going to the police, or taking the cash for himself, he prints a notice & posts it around Portobello Road. This ill-conceived act creates a chain of events that links Wren to other obsessions & despairs. As these volatile characters come into Wren's life
- & the life of his trusting fianc