It is 1988. Sophie Adler is an American woman, living in the Caribbean, married to an Indo-Trinidadian man who is using his family’s shipping company to traffic cocaine to Europe and the United States for a Colombian cartel. What Sophie’s husband does not know is that she is actually deep undercover, working for MI6 as part of an international operation to dismantle his drug distribution network. However, the status quo is upset when her husband is murdered and his family begin to suspect that Sophie might be to blame.
We cut back to 1980, and we meet Sophie again. Except that her name is not Sophie – it is Emma. And she is working in a hospital in Northern Ireland. At home, Emma is responsible for her siblings but she does not earn enough money to stop them from being evicted from their family home. So she decides to make her own luck, and withholds a piece of information that a patient tells her about a cocaine shipment. Emma steals the drugs and sets about becoming a drug dealer to get their home back.