Three small-time Dublin criminals aspire to move up the criminal pecking order. Liam is a small time dealer who wants to quit his life of crime to become an electrician and provide for his girlfriend and son. Dots, is a crazy, irresponsible thug with ambitions to become a big time dealer. Scratchcard, is a drug user with no ambitions but to stay on social welfare and watch the world go by. Liam is torn between life in the flats and his responsibility to be a good father to his son.