Barney Richards is 37 years old. He lives with his mother in a provincial town. One night at the local discotheque he bumps into Gavin, an old aquaintance, who is doing well in the capital. Suddenly, inexplicably, Barney begins to feel inadequate - as though life has passed him by. But who is responsible? Who is to blame? God, his mother, himself or the innocent-looking tortoise living in the back garden?
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