Plagued by his fiery, anarchic mother, who survives on Guinness and a burning nationalism for Ireland, tormented by his sister Maggie, who thinks everything he says is 'stew-pit', abused by his brain-damaged brother Noelie, who hurls bad language and cans of baked beans with equal abandon, and driven to despair by the rest of the lunatic Griffin brood, Frankie wants only to sort out the chaos in his young life. Eternally broke, obsessed by rock music and dreams of California beach girls, Frankie Griffin is about to set off on a hilariously disaster-prone search for independence...