Mark (Mark Doherty) is having a bad day. A struggling actor, he's just been through the ordeal of yet another fruitless audition for a bit part in a movie. With his long-suffering girlfriend, Sally (Amy Huberman) about to walk out and his landlord (Keith Allen) ready to evict him he's only got his best mate, the alcoholic Pierce (Dylan Moran) and their joint ambition of writing a career-breaking film to sustain him. Life's not easy, but things are about to get worse...much worse, and then someone dies and things get really bad.