When his dad leaves for a job in New York Ash is left to cope with his
drug-addicted, alcoholic mother Rhonda, who decides to move away from the life
she hates in Bristol to her home town of Liverpool, taking Ash away from his
school, his mates and his gran. Not only does Ash have problems at home with a
harassing, demanding mother, he becomes the easy target of a gang of bullies at
his new school, the Jessop crew, because he talks with a different accent and
wears a hearing aid.
Then one day Ash meets the mysterious Big Brother, who
wants to help Ash seek revenge on the Jessops, but it seems Big Brother has an
agenda of his own. Just why is he so keen to help Ash destroy his enemies, and
where did he come from? The pair strike up a partnership Ash is very soon
desperate to break; the problem is Big Brother refuses to let him go.