Plot summary
British punk con artist Sarah Manning, living in Toronto, sees a woman who could be her twin, Beth Childs, kill herself by jumping in front of a train. Retrieving Beth's bag and finding that she was wealthy, Sarah decides to take her home and clean out her bank account. This would enable Sarah to collect her daughter Kira from her foster mother, Mrs. S. Sarah asks her foster brother Felix to identify Beth's body as Sarah's to buy time for her scheme and to throw her drug-dealer boyfriend Vic off her trail.
Sarah withdraws $75,000 from Beth's account but discovers, to her dismay, that Beth was a police detective suspended for shooting one Maggie Chen. Beth's police partner Art intercepts Sarah, who poses as Beth, and takes her to a hearing for Chen's death. Sarah ingests soap and vomits to stall the proceedings and try to escape. However, Art breaks into her car, taking the $75,000. After Sarah's funeral, with only Felix knowing she is still alive, Sarah is approached by Katja Obinger, another lookalike, from Germany. Katja is killed by a sniper, but Sarah manages to escape.
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