Set in suburban Surrey as the Millennium approaches, Sam is an aspiring musician whose love of Sixties and Seventies Rock music sets him apart from his peers - until he meets Vince Hale, a legendary local guitarist a few years his senior. Like his friends, Sam goes off to university but shocks everyone by dropping out in order to form the perfect Rock 'n' Roll band with Vince, shunning his parents' comfortable home to move in with his friend's dysfunctional family. But from the start there are problems - the least of which is finding the right personnel - and it soon becomes clear that Vince's hard-drinking, foul-mouthed bravado hides deeper issues which threaten to destroy the dream before it can even get started...