In 2015 Curt Weldon, a retired politician with a penchant for conspiracy theories, is approached with a business opportunity: to manage a large fund belonging to a Middle Eastern oil minister.

The catch? The money, which is over $350 million in cash, is being stored in Ghana.

In Accra, Curt and his business partner, attorney Richard Glanton, agree to pay a series of fees in an attempt to obtain the cash, taking out bigger and bigger loans to do so.

By 2017, Curt and Richard are millions of dollars in debt, and embroiled in a lawsuit in California over the unpaid loans, having never obtained the $350 million.

In episode 1 of Big Fish, Maeve and Sophia learn about the lawsuit, and set out to unravel the strange story of a multi-million dollar scam that sounds too unbelievable to be true.