Laurence Rickard

Bill Shakespeare is a hapless lute player with a big dream. Kicked out of his band, Bill leaves his despairing wife and kids behind in Stratford to seek fame and fortune in London. He's written a great work for the stage and he'll prove all the doubters wrong.

Jayce is a young man just released from prison after serving time for a crime he didn't commit. Broke and returning to his dead-end hometown in East Anglia, he teams up with an old schoolfriend, and Kev, an elderly neighbour, to fence a shed full of weed grown on the old man's allotment. Together, they form an alliance of age and youth - an unlikely partnership of the forgetful and the forgotten.