A classic story of loneliness, obsession and addiction in pre–war Earls Court, set against an atmospheric film noir backdrop.

Alcoholic George Harvey Bone is hopelessly infatuated with a young actress, Netta, who is cool, hopelessly desirable and utterly contemptuous of him. As Bone faces “the end of hope and love” as he falls under Netta’s spell, he is cast adrift in an unsettling, seductive, darkly comic world of seedy saloon bars, lodging houses and boozing philosophers – except in his "dead" moments, when something goes click in his head and he realizes, without doubt, that he must kill her…