Ray and Farhaz are victims, each determined by unusual circumstances. The old man and the teenage boy resolve their own situations – alone.
Ray and Farhaz are a two-man self-help group. Farhaz carries Ray's cases of beer from the local shop and Ray teaches Farhaz to play saxophone.
However, Ray, an angry, traumatised veteran finally hits rock bottom. He is forced to confront his past. Anger and the memories associated with an overpowering guilt, hit at him again and again. Struggling to cope with his rage, now aware that he has been used and discarded by his country, he focuses on the way that today’s military personnel are mistreated and mismanaged.
Fifteen-year-old Farhaz, excluded from school, is isolated from his cultural roots and the Pakistani community. When not playing sax he spends most of his daytime with Danni, a girl who lives at the nearby Children's Home. They have a desperate need for each other's company, but neither is able to talk about this. Their main 'kick' is the excitement they get from shoplifting. Following a childish confrontation they temporarily split, a move both regret. Then Farhaz is recruited by a local fundamentalist group as a potential candidate for radicalisation. This new allegiance has dangerous implications for Farhaz and Danni.