The
Pay Day
is an independent British heist movie set in a post-pandemic world. The
film follows Jenn, a 30-year-old, broke, frustrated, and single IT
technician feeling betrayed by the system is offered a lucrative theft job
by eccentric crime boss Gates; she decides this is her chance to escape
mediocrity. For this life-changing payday, Jenn has to infiltrate a FTSE
100 company office building with a fake identity, override their
state-of-the-art security system, hack in and retrieve the data, and then
leave without a trace. What could possibly go wrong?
Like with any exciting heist flick, the mission doesn’t exactly go to plan.
Jenn overcomes the initial treacherous and nail-biting setbacks and finds
her Ocean’s Eleven style groove on the job. But just when she thinks she’s
cracked it, a bewitching working-class grifter called George appears and
swipes the prize from her. After being wrong-footed, she outsmarts George,
but when she accidentally shoots him in the shoulder, both are forced to
rethink their tactics.
As they discover they have more in common than they first thought, Jenn
will unearth new levels of fearlessness and tenacity as a game of
romantically charged cat and mouse ensues, with the lucrative data and
their lives on the line...
