When an eleven year old boy arrives in Southern Ireland, walking on his hands and quoting Shakespeare, the natives begin to treat him with suspicion.
The town he finds himself in is a small maelstrom of snobbery, sexual repression and quaint, quintessential Irish intolerance, presided over by a clergy who discharge duties of guidance and tutelage with unparalleled fervour. Yet outside of the Brother's earshot, he hears whispers of a spectral mad man in the mountains; a buried treasure in the hillside; a cash reward for pornographic pictures.
With a pathological desire to avenge all wrongs, both real and imagined, the newcomer sets out to win the approval of the bemused community, succumbing along the way to the temptations of lust, pride and murderous vengeance.
