 "Finney" begins with the murder of the patriarch of a criminal family, Patrick "Tucker" Finney (Clive Russell). Who killed him? There are plenty of suspects - from his compulsive gambler and drug addict son Tom (Andrew Serkis) to rival "businessman" Bobo Simpson (John Woodvine). Tucker s eldest son, Steven (or Finney, as everyone calls him) couldn t care less. As a sick joke, his father has left him a derelict cinema in the middle of Simpson territory. Finney decides to turn it into a jazz club, and finally pull his life together. Meanwhile, his older sister Lena (Melanie Hill), who has inherited both Tucker s shady empire and his hard personality, has decided to find out who murdered her father...