The bitter Jake is a self-professed ‘artist and filmmaker’ who can’t quite keep life together in the face of other people’s success. Jake’s life changes when small-time thief Jojo breaks into Jake’s car and steals his briefcase containing a book on screen-writing and Jake’s filofax of ‘contacts’. Jojo’s new script ensures he quickly becomes the talk of the town. Jake, meanwhile, decides to ‘drop out of society’ and takes a road trip to Brighton in search of some answers.