This is the story of four young Scottish guys, brought together by a collective boredom and a love of music to form a rock band.
The rock band – Aorta – becomes middling successful (receptive audiences in Czechoslovakia and Sweden) and lasts eight years before not so much splitting as shattering. The four walk away from the wreckage determined not to see one another again. But now it’s twelve years later and a dream brings them back together, if only for a little while.
A well of unfinished business draws the four back together at a time in each of their lives when they are especially aimless and discontent. The ex-manic depressive singer has just given up a career as an Elvis impersonator and his wife has left him, the drummer is managing a nondescript supermarket, the guitarist still has the luck of the Irish and the rich, gullible wife to prove it and the bassist has just been sacked for inappropriate stripping in the workplace.
Is there any of the ‘old magic’ left for Aorta or could it be the best they can hope for is to get out of the reunion alive?