The play takes place in 1999 somewhere in England. Nick is a 1980s revolutionary who has been in prison since 1984 for attempted murder. He tried to kill Jonathan , who is a capitalist, which represents everything Nick and his former lover Helen , who is now a councillor and a prospective MP, are against. Helen does not want Nick back, so he is stranded on the streets where he comes upon a man beating a woman, a topless dancer named Nadia. Nadia has a best friend, Tim, a young dance club drug addict who has AIDS, but also has rented a Russian boy-toy, Victor. These six people take the audience on a journey of pain, of love ripped to shreds, of not admitting your true emotions and feelings to yourself or those around you. But it is also a look into the empty and confused worlds of two generations, and where their paths of life will lead.