Returning to Manchester, her broken home, Esther moves back to the flat she used to share with her best friend Donna. Surrounded by empty gin bottles, with her past life safely taped up in stacked cardboard boxes, she proceeds to turn her back on a 'real world' that seems meaningless & absurd. Instead she lives in her own head. Then she meets Newton, a care-worn American wanderer with a drinker's face & an angel's smile. Newton changes everything. But for how long?