The story kicks off on Hartcliffe council estate in Bristol during the early 1980s. It follows Steven Knight, a working-class boy who has his motorbike stolen the day he buys it. Teaming up with his scoundrel friends he desperately tries to track it down before it's gone for good.

Håkan started sniffing paint thinner when he was 13, at 16 he was first arrested, now we get to follow him as he returns to his childhood neighbourhood and no one wants to see him.

A young boy away at boarding school struggles when his mother and father split up.