David Suchet stars as the media tycoon in a dramatised account of how greed, arrogance and ambition destroyed a man and led him to commit one of the world's biggest ever frauds. As Maxwell's world starts to collapse, he retreats to the heart of his web at the offices of the Daily Mirror and sets about saving his skin. Trapped and paranoid, his attempts to stem the tide of debts culminate in him stealing a billion pounds from his companies and their pension funds.