Barry, a mild mannered dimwit from somewhere the Northwest of England, attempts to elicit the help of his former lover, Linda, in a local social club after brutally murdering his grandmother with a hammer. After much cajoling, Barry treats Linda and the local punters to a surreal bovine display.

A blind musician hears a murder committed in the apartment upstairs from hers that sends her down a dark path into London's gritty criminal underworld.