Sometimes funny. Sometimes moving. Always turbulent. Matty Whistler is the curmudgeon's curmudgeon - a passionately unkempt reminder of the brevity of human life.
From youthful idealism to sleeping in shop doorways and begging for change of a different kind, one man's journal maps a tumultuous and cynical downward spiral. Yet he's laughing in adversity, frequently brimming with hope and expectation, and if there was a battle for the pride and dignity of our flawed species he'd still be first into the fray. Matty Whistler is a clever and witty man of no means - some would say he was even sophisticated. He could've been anything he wanted to be, and he probably is. No-one's asking you to feel sorry for him, just to come on a journey to a place where you might - begging the question, is it he who has rejected society, or society that has rejected him?