After twenty five years in prison, Foley (Samuel L. Jackson) is finished with the grifters life. Prison and a lifetime in the game have stripped him of friends, family and a reason to get up in the morning. But when he meets an elusive young woman named Iris (Ruth Negga), the possibility of a new start looks real. Yet his past is proving to be a stubborn companion. Ethan (Luke Kirby), the son of his former partner, wants to learn the game and who better to learn from than the closest thing he has to a father? And he has the perfect mark Ethan's boss Xavier (Tom Wilkinson) a brutal man admired in the straight world for his business acumen, and feared in the underworld for his ruthlessness, is coming to town, and there is an easy $8 million to be had if you know how to play smart.