A son and mother's attempt to rob a bank is scuppered by bizarre manifestations from their past.

In 1965 - the eve of decriminalization for acts of male homosexuality in the U.K. - Matthews, a young gay man at odds with the world, discovers love, sex, and a new family in the backstreets and underground bars of Soho.

In the world of The Dead Ones, those whose lives are cut short by violence do not disappear, they live to haunt the person who killed them.