The oil rigs provide rich pickings for those who work on them, but for wives isolated from husbands affluence is not enough.

Jake lives in the shadow of his dying grandfather, who was once the town's toughest hard man. Despite their hatred of each other, Jake's sole aim is to be as tough as the old man was. One day in Jake's life, as he drifts, drinks and fights, leads to a bleak realisation.

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