M3 (young, 40s). A junk shop.
The setting is a junk-shop where serious business deals are made. The deals are about thieving, a hopeful liberation of a valuable coin collection from a nearby apartment.
In a land where everyone hustles to make it, even crooks have to be competitive and work hard to be winners. Loyalty, criminal morality, betrayal and honour among thieves are all involved.
Donny, the owner of the junk shop has his eye on a collection of coins. Donny has learned of the coin collection which came to light when the collector found a valuable 'buffalo nickel' in the shop He recruits a not-very-promising youngster called Bobby as his accomplice, but an angry minor hoodlum called Teach usurps Bobby's place. Teach, however, is the biggest loser amongst a bunch of no-hopers. The three plotters fancy themselves as businessmen pursuing the genuine concerns of free enterprise.
When the time comes for the planned robbery, the muscle man Donny who was hired to help them doesn't turn up, but Bobby does. There is some double-crossing and a flare-up of violence with the inevitable result that everything goes awry at the hands of the inept trio. And yet through it all, even in the grottier reaches of the lower depths, there are values.