The film is a story of the ways in which insurance investigator Roland Copping interferes in and manipulates the lives of others with outrageous games and gimmicks. Eventually he becomes involved in an escalating vendetta with a couple who make an unusual insurance claim.
Phil Collins
as Roland Copping
Hugo Weaving
as Jonathan Wheats
Josephine Byrnes
as Beth Wheats
Peter Mochrie
as Michael Allen
Helen O'Connor
as Margaret
Colleen Clifford
as Mrs. Waterson
Vincent Ball
as Judge
Gandhi MacIntyre
as Cartel Valuer
Nicholas Hammond
as Detective Simms
Kee Chan
as Detective Alan
Ian Cockburn
as Matthew Copping
Rebel Penfold-Russell
as Mother
