 When Norman Tickle, an over-sized and over-aged teenager, is finally kicked out of home by his weary mother and dictatorial stepfather, there is nothing left to do but for him to take to the road in search of that big adventure called  adulthood . Norman and his best friend, Arty Harris, hook up with a multi-national crowd of backpackers heading for the Western Highlands, and a season of "waiting on" and "bar" work in a remote Highland hotel. But they are not "well met". In the dilapidated, musty and thoroughly unhygienic hotel run by "Clan Pertwee", Norman discovers how quickly the transition from boy to man is needed. With summer season about to start, and a huge amount of work still to do, the travelers set about their tasks with gusto. But such enthusiasm is unlikely to last in the face of the Pertwees  perverse gastronomic taste. When TROY turned on crime boss DMITRI DEBARTOLLA he was forced to leave Los Angeles and lay low in Miami. After two years, and the loss of his leg in a shootout with a Cuban crime syndicate, Troy returns to LA to reclaim what is rightfully his. A reunion with his former partners in a rundown hotel sets the stage for an explosive encounter where past and present collide.