Just a few days before the UK switches over from Pounds to Euros, a gang decides to rob a train that holds the old notes headed for destruction. One of the robbers hides on the train and periodically throws out bundles of money to his cohorts stationed about the country.
One of these bags, however, doesn't land in the hands of the gang members, it lands on the clubhouse of Damian (Alexander Nathan Etel), who thinks that perhaps the money came from God in response to his prayers. Then he just needs to decide what to do with it.
At first he keeps it secret fairly well, but with the approaching deadline to change over Pounds to Euros, he has to share the secret with someone, so he tells his brother. The only problem is most banks require that a parent be there to sign for them, which puts them into a bit of a pickle when it comes to changing the money, and they can only spend so much of it, on picture phones and the like.
When Damian gives $1000 to a charity at school, suddenly it looks like he's busted, but it really only draws some attention to him, and means that his dad has found someone (Damian's mom died previously). Damian's brother doesn't like this development at all, and tells Damian that doing something like that was a horrible idea, but Damian can't stand the idea that the money didn't come from God, and when he learns that it was provided by robbers, he feels that he has to give it away.
Then someone breaks into their house just before Christmas, and where Damian's dad was going to take the money and turn it into the authorities, he decides to keep it since the police can never find anyone and the insurance takes so long to pay off anyway. That's when things get really interesting, just half an hour or so from the end and a day from the switchover, as the family and Dorothy (the charity lady) try like crazy to switch all the money before the deadline.
Finally they've changed all that they can without arousing interest in themselves, but one of the gang shows up to collect the money - and that's when Damian decides that he needs to do something. All this money has just caused too much trouble. So he takes all the money out and burns it, at which point he sees a vision of his mom, to go along with visions of the saints that he's been seeing all along (which is really just a bit odd, really).
The movie isn't a bad one, but it's a bit eccentric, and at times can move rather slowly. You probably want to make sure you aren't tired when you're watching this one, and the first hour or so can probably be watched in fast-forward, or perhaps even skipped entirely.
Rated PG for thematic elements, language, some peril and mild sensuality.
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