Peter Jernigan´s life is slipping out of control. His wife´s gone, he´s lost his job and he´s a stranger to his teenage son. Worse, his only relief from all this reality - alcohol - is less effective by the day. And when the medicine doesn´t work, you up the dose. And when that doesn´t work, what then? (Apart from upping the dose again anyway, because who knows?) Jernigan´s answer is to slowly turn his caustic wit on everyone around him - his wife Judith, his teenage son Danny, his vulnerable new girlfriend Martha and, eventually, himself - until the laughs have turned to mute horror. But while he´s busy burning every bridge back to the people who love him, Jernigan´s perverse charisma keeps us all in thrall to the bitter end...