Divided from his father and frozen out of his home in Ireland by his new stepmother, sixteen year old Jimmy O'Callaghan runs away resolving never to return. With no one to guide and support him, he finds himself with little option but to learn about life and love as best he can. He's aided in his quest for enlightenment, success and happiness, by an unlikely collection of worldly people, the sort of people he would never have encountered, let alone...