After the success with his first novel, Dwight Taylor moves to the suburbs to work on his second novel that will earn him a name in the literary world. But with the McWyat's boy playing his music so loud you can literally feel the ground shaking underneath your feet, the smell of manure from the Anderson's obsessive garden care and the other neighbours' nuisance; Dwight begins to lose it. After talking with them proves useless, he decides to take matters into his own hands....