Professional thief Ernie takes Mike on as an apprentice, but while Mike clearly has "larceny in his heart", it will take him a long time to get as good as Ernie.

Burt Reynolds plays Ernie, a veteran thief who now wants to retire and forget the past. But as a last task before retiring, he will pass all his experience to a young and a little dumb boy. Things don't go the way Ernie wants, when the young man decides to do his first robbery... Now Ernie will use all his experience on the job to help the boy, and in the process, Ernie will get closer to the young man, and a relationship as father and son will grow up in their hearts, at the same time they will have to live the adventure.—Ary Luiz Dalazen Jr. <[email protected]>