Samuel O’Shea, a hard drinking womaniser, has seen better days. His second marriage is ending, and his first wife and two grown children have turned against him. All the old stories are given a new twist, when he begins to have surreal hallucinations and learns he may not be long for this world. He retreats to his family shack in remote Ireland, to take stock and begins work on that great novel he always meant to write. All this leads Samuel to an utterly unforeseeable, but peculiarly happy ending.