In the suburbs of Dublin, more than a dozen strangers find their path colliding in sometimes violent, sometimes absurd ways.

Setting the chain of events in motion is Lehiff, a small-time crook whose most recent petty theft has him on the run from Jerry, a self-aggrandizing police detective who’s even more full of himself bow that he’s being constantly trailed breakup -or- "Intermission," as he calls it- with his girlfriend, Deirdre, who has promptly taken up with the older, more conventionally responsible bank manager Sam.

When Lehiff suggests that the answer to all of his and their plan spells dire consequences for everyone in their immediate circle of relations.