London at the turn of the Millennium. Samuel Grant has it all – the look, the job, the achingly cool suit... but Samuel isn't having any fun. Worse than that, he's depressed. He loathes his dream job, has grown a boil, fashioned a Walter Mitty-complex, and his perfect girlfriend has dumped him. That he drove her away only makes matters worse. Samuel admits he's hardly the worse off of London's 8 million residents, but that's hardly the point