When jockey Martin Stukely dies following a fall in a steeplechase at Cheltenham races, he accidently embroils his friend Gerard Logan in a perilous search for a stolen video tape. Gerard Logan, half artist, half artisan, is a glass-blower on the verge of widespread acclaim for the originality and ingenuity of his work.
Believing the missing videotape to contain priceless information, and wrongly convinced that Logan knows where to find it, a vicious group of villains sets out to extract from him the information he does not have. Logan reckons that to survive he must himself find out the truth. The final race to the tape throws more hurdles and more hazards on his way than his dead jockey friend could ever have imagined.
