Synopsis

Shane, 20 years old is desperately unhappy, he is stuck in an office job in the civil service. He’s a talented artist who longs to go to Art School. When he moves into an apartment in Limerick city with Vincent, a gay fashion student, things begin to look up. Vincent takes Shane under his wing, teaching him how to dress and style himself, and intensifying Shane’s longing to study art. When he meets and falls in love with Gemma, best friend of Vincent’s, something has to give. One day Shane stumbles across stash hidden in the corridor by Keith, a drug dealer who lives downstairs. Shane doesn’t steal the drug and Keith offers him to go on a drugs run to Dublin. Shane desperately needs money to finance his studies and to buy new clothes because he has given up, so he goes to Dublin. It will be a horrible experience, but when he gets back to Limerick he is a changed man, albeit a wealthier one. Within days Vincent has transformed him into one of the coolest cats in town. Unknown to Shane though, the cops have tailed him back from Dublin and are now watching his apartment.