Tommy is 25. He is British. Tommy loves his country. He has T-Shirts that say so. He loves football. He has T-shirts that say so. He loves Oasis. He has T-shirts that say so. Tommy loves Heroin. T-Shirts are difficult to find. Heroin is the last great British institution. Unaffected by ‘Suit wearing self righteous right wing bastards’, He is the Winston Churchill of Smack Heads. Afghanistan? Bomb ‘em. Just bring the smack back safely. Tommy is a pioneer. Tommy is a revolutionary. Tommy is a modern day Che Guevara. He has a T-shirt that proves this. He got it from Debenhams.

Edie is 18. She is British. She considers herself a European. She’s only ever been to France. Edie thinks Tommy is amazing. She might be in love. But she doesn’t like to label things. She’s been his girlfriend for 4 months. But she doesn’t like to label things. Edie thinks the sixties were amazing. She buys retro clothes. From Top Shop. Edie likes to smoke weed. It frees her mind man. She’s never taken Heroin. She agrees with Tommy that the middle classes attach too much stigma to it. Her disapproving mother disapproves. She reads Jack Kerouac and Heat magazine.

Chloe is 22. She is British. Tommy introduced Chloe to Heroin. She quit 4 days ago. Now she concentrates on not taking it ever EVER again. Chloe was Tommy’s girlfriend for over 5 years. Chloe used to be an English Student. She didn’t graduate. Didn’t want to. Tommy convinced her education was inferior to chemical stimulation. As Tommy sleeps she plots to kill him. She despises Edie. Edie has choices. Chloe doesn’t. Chloe is the original angry young man. Just angrier. And not a man. She’ll have her revenge. If she can be arsed.