A car crash and a few beers is enough to persuade gun shearer Foley (Jack Thompson) to sign up for a week's work with novice contractor and old mate Tim King (Max Cullen). Once they're at the station, however, King admits to selling him a pup: it's not a six-day job, it's six hard weeks. Sharing a room with Old Garth (movingly played by Reg Lye), a pisspot drunk at death's door...