A washed-up rock star pumps his millions into a criminally-hopeless Scottish football club - but sees insanely-jealous outsiders turn his dream into a nightmare.
Scottish Third Division strugglers Angus Athletic have always been crap - a fact board members and hard-bitten fans Dougie Meikle and Joe Golspie know all-too painfully.
So when Marco Paul, one half of 90s rave chart-toppers Euphoria, buys up their mouldering club and puts £1million into buying players with actual talent, what on Earth are they to make of it? Is their small-town cynicism of the "English weirdo" justified?
At first, it seems not, as eccentric socialist team guru Graeme Garvie and his motley crew, guided by "lost boy of Scottish football" Aidan McAnespie, soar majestically upwards.
But with success comes jealousy, a vicious media hate-campaign and political meddling - not to mention the fact that Marco falls in love with someone he really shouldn't have fallen in love with.
And as his dream descends into a nightmare, Marco ends up fighting for his life.
Based loosely on the true story of Gretna FC, Angus Athletic is a fairy tale that almost ends up a horror story.