Joe Scot (Daniel Craig) is a washed-up Hollywood star whose hedonistic lifestyle of sex, drugs, and celebrity has taken it's toll. Flash back to his childhood and small-town English seaside life set to the beat of Roxy Music and Bowie. Joe's rites of passage as a young man lay the foundations for the Hollywood dream he goes on to experience. Confronted by tragedy, he is forced to flee in search of a new life, and only now does he finally face up to the ghosts of his past.