Forthright businessman Roger Smythe does not suffers fools gladly and when he is presented with one in the shape of a dizzy dispatch rider on new year's eve 1999 his fuse is ready to blow. She has delivered the wrong documents to his office twice. Such is his level of frustration at this level of incompetence that he decides to give the girl such a thrashing with the cane that she will never forget the eve of the new millennium!