Summary
A moon-faced ledger-maven, James Pollock, breathes the sepia dusk of a provincial counting-house where ink smells like contraband; one smudged signature on a guardian’s cheque, wrought to rescue the imperilled sire of his beloved, detonates a chain-reaction of moral erosion. Instead of the expected clang of iron gates, destiny deals him an ironical wildcard: the very detectives who unmask him press the shy scratch-pen wizard into an underground guild of paper alchemists, a fin-de-siècle cabal that turns watermarks into blood-oaths. From Lancashire’s fog-choked docks to Monte Carlo’s chandeliers, the film charts a metamorphosis of guilt into craftsmanship, love into liability, and paper into prophecy, culminating in a roulette of forgery where every spin of the wheel risks not merely freedom but identity itself.
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A bank clerk forges a check to help his girlfriend's father. He's found out, but instead of being arrested he becomes a member of a gang of forgers.
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