It is February, and the World Winter Games will soon begin in Bayporte, Great Elizabeth, Canada. Andy Kennedy--ex-NHL star, ex-husband, excommunicant from the Canadian Dream--just wants to stay drunk and get warm. Homeless and alcoholic, he seeks comfort in the dark bars and dingy flophouses of skid row. With his street "family"--pals Annie and Joey--Andy tries to salvage the remnants of his shattered life as the cops and courts try to "clean up the streets" in preparation for the Games.