Hamish McLaren spent three decades moving through Australia and beyond, presenting himself as a charming, successful businessman to women he met through personal ads, dating sites, and mutual friends. This film traces his pattern: a whirlwind courtship, promises of marriage or investment, then requests for money that drained his targets' savings and, in some cases, their homes. Interviews with women he swindled lay out how the con worked in practice, from forged credentials to fabricated business ventures, and how long it took each of them to realize they were not his only victim. Investigators and journalists who tracked his movements across four continents describe the difficulty of building a case against someone who kept changing his name and his story. The film treats McLaren less as a singular villain than as a case study in how confidence tricks exploit trust and isolation, letting the women he deceived describe both the deception and its aftermath in their own words.