SYNOPSIS:

A young bloke, Finlay, sits in a dimly lit room smoking and drinking. The room is trashed and final warning bills are scattered around. Finlay walks through town talking on his mobile phone, he’s checking out some sports cars through the window of a showroom when he accidentally turns and takes out a girl walking past him. He helps her back to her feet and picks up her bags for her. He apologies and asks if he can make it up to her, she just wants to get going, she notices that he thinks he’s a bit of a big shot and she ribs him for it, he manages to make her laugh and finds out that she’s a writer. It’s months later and they are living together, Finlay is sat on his own smoking a cigar and drinking brandy, Dani comes in through the door and Finlay jumps up to greet her. He asks her for the news and she tells him that she’s been signed by an agent, Finlay’s already prepared a surprise celebration for the two of them and they head out for the evening. They arrive back home later and finish off a bottle while getting close. Another jump forward a couple of months, Finlay is sat on his own in the living room smoking and drinking, looking pretty down, his phone rings, he jumps to look at it but is disappointed by the caller and throws it to the other end of the sofa unanswered. Back to when they first met on the high street and the conversation continues. After he finds out that Dani is a writer they share a couple of laughs and, after being pursued down the street for a while, Dani decides that Finlay might be worth a shot. He asks for his number and he reveals that he put it in her phone already when he picked it up off the floor for her. She thinks he’s a bit sure of himself, but he’s charming and she gives him the benefit of the doubt. It’s their first dinner date and Dani arrives at Finlay’s house, it’s quite impressive. They share dinner and a couple bottles of wine and get on like a house on fire. The next we see of them they’re in the bedroom getting it on. A few months later and Dani is moving her belongings into Finlay’s place, they’re in the bedroom and they’re both very happy. A few more months pass and Finlay is on his own in the living room again, smoking and drinking, he’s trying to call someone on his phone but there’s no answer. Dani comes in the door and begins to apologies about how work is taking up too much of her time, Finlay wants to tell her something but she continues with excuses and promises that she’ll make some time for them to spend together soon. Finlay finally manages to tell Dani that he made a mistake at work, a really big mistake, and has lost his place on the floor, but most importantly his reputation. His career is effectively over. She consoles him and they decide that they can get through it together. Months later and the couple are in the living room having an argument, Dani is moving out, she says it because Finlay is an alcoholic and he needs help, and that she doesn’t know how to help him. His point of view is that she hasn’t been there for him at all; all she cares about is her book. He’s drunk and they start hurling abuse at each other. Back to after she moved in, Finlay is on his own looking for a job, he’s trying to call Dani but she doesn’t answer, they’re both in the living room arguing and Dani is trying to make things ok with Finaly, but they can’t afford the place their living in and she wants them both to hold on for money to start coming in again. He goes back to the bottle, they are arguing all the time now. Dani is telling Finlay that she’s moving out because she cant take it anymore, he can’t handle it, accusing her of walking out on him. Later that day he’s sat on his own smoking and drinking, it’s the first shot of the film again. He’s holding a bottle of pills in one hand, and an empty brandy bottle in the other. Earlier on and we see the end of the argument they had, Finlay can’t handle the situation and starts to trash the room, Dani has had enough and lays into Finlay, he reacts and pushes her off, she falls and hits her head on the table. She’s dead, there’s a pool of blood forming around her head. Finlay is in shock, his face is completely blank as he touches her face, realising what has happened. He sits on the sofa smoking and drinking. He takes some pills from the kitchen drawer. The living room is a wreck, Dani is dead and Finlay is on the sofa, the pills are gone, the brandy is gone, a cigarette is burned out in his hand, he’s either dead or on his way out. There is a bang on the front door and a policeman shouts through the letterbox saying they’ve had reports of a domestic disturbance. It’s too late.