Red, known by the court as James Kiane Dexter is normal for a punk rock, sex loving, drug abusing, alcoholic seventeen year old. He remains unchanged through vicious therapy that they say will tame him. It doesn't. When his mother dies an offer to adopt him arrives by none other then Billie Joe Armstrong himself. Does it work? On a tour in Ireland he finds himself falling for the mysterious Whatsername. Isn't love just a chemical?