This four-part made-for-TV drama focuses up close on a Dublin couple with four children. Charlo is a hustler, a head-first footballer, a thief, abusive. Paula drinks, objects to Charlie's thievery and adultery without the will to chuck him out. John Paul worships his father who's initiating him into the world of beer and football but recoils at Charlo's treatment of mum; asthma and misbehavior at school follow. Daughter Nicola is a young woman, starting work in a garment factory. When Charlo begins to stare at her, she's frightened and Paula's furious.

In a working-class quarter of Dublin, 'Bimbo' Reeves gets laid off from his job and, with his redundancy payout, buys a van and sells fish and chips with his buddy, Larry. Due to Ireland's surprising success at the 1990 FIFA World Cup, their business starts off well, but the relationship between the two friends soon becomes strained as Bimbo behaves more like a typical boss.

八岁的小男孩奥达尔（Oran Creagh 饰）迷恋上了他的二年级老师佩蒂小姐（Olga Wehrly 饰），便花掉自己所有的零花钱买了一只玩具戒指向老师求婚，老师将其当成一个有趣的礼物收下。然而一天，奥达尔发现老师的手上有了一枚新戒指，因为她即将与未婚夫结婚了。怅然若失的奥达尔心中开始酝酿一个骇人的念头，就像他所爱的所有西部牛仔电影一样，他约了佩蒂小姐的未婚夫明日放学后一决生死，后者答应了并开始嘲讽这个滑稽的男孩，直到奥达尔真的从书包里掏出一把枪…… 本片曾获北爱尔兰第23届福伊尔电影节最佳短片奖，以及第83届奥斯卡最佳真人短片提名。