Nothing ever happens to Albert. A shy and lonely, thirty-something chemical factory production clerk on Lincolnshire's industrial Humber Estuary, his boring life seems to be taking him nowhere. Then one Friday night while leaving the cinema he is abducted by three mysterious women, who bundle him into their car, sedate him and eventually abandon him naked in the Lincolnshire countryside. For once motivated not to be one of life's victims, he resolves to track down his abductresses and find out why they selected him for such cruel treatment. In this he finds a willing accomplice in the form of the far more worldly Marion. Together they follow a trail of intrigue which eventually leads them to......