Noah is a filmmaker and alcoholic who has experienced too much. He now has bladder cancer, and as his illness forces him to evaluate his chequered past life, it becomes clear that he is a modern day hero of epic proportions.
It's September 1945 and Billy Hopkins is off to London to train as a teacher, with only ten bob in his pocket. Despite his dad's gloomy warnings that he'll pick up bad ways from the toffs down Sout...