During the week depicted in Irish playwright and screenwriter Conor McPherson's directorial debut, the lives of Frank, his troubled brother Joe (Laurence Kinlan) and sister Carmel's wavering boyfriend Ray (Conor Mullen) will go in strange and unexpected directions.

Frank robs slimy loan shark Simple Simon (Brendan Gleeson), to whom his father is heavily indebted. Joe befriends fellow misfit Damien, who thanks him by getting him into one scrape after another. And Ray will step off the straight and narrow many a time before balancing academic aspirations with down-to-earth family life.