Belfast, Christmas Eve, 1989. The wrong time and place to fall in love; especially when the competition is God.
For several years seven friends have been meeting up on Christmas Eve to go on a day-long pub crawl around Belfast city centre. This year, however, things don't go to plan.
In their attempt to reach the pub crawl, two of the group become involved in a series of misadventures involving the police, the army, a variety of paramilitaries and the general mistrust between the city's two communities. The subsequent journey through the streets of North and West Belfast begins to assume - for the two protaganists at least - Homeric proportions.
The five remaining characters proceed with the pub crawl and a series of flashbacks is used to explain their current attitudes, (Tone's embittered atheism, Joker's fear of the unknown).
During the course of the day the complacent Christian beliefs of one of the gang (Jamesy) are thrown into sharp focus when he falls suddenly and reluctantly in love with a girl who harbours a more robust version of Christianity.
Jamesy's attempts to form a bond with this girl force him to examine just what his beliefs are and to question whether those beliefs can be compatible with his love of historical and scientific truths.