Lloyd from Leith has a transfiguring passion for the unhappily married Heather. Together, they explore the true nature of house music and chemical romance. Will their ardour fizzle and die, or will it ignite and blaze like a thousand suns?

Ecstasy follows them and others through the backstreets of Edinburgh, stifling suburban sitting rooms, and the bright lights of London. Exhilarating and dazzling, this is Welsh at his very best.

Two teens fall in love with each other and heroin. Tar has reasons for running away from home that run deep and sour, whereas Gemma, with her middle-class roots firmly on show, has a deep-rooted lust for adventure. Their first hit brings bliss, the next despair.

After running away from their troubled homes, two English teenagers move in with a group of squatters in the port city of Bristol and try to find ways to support their growing addiction to heroin. Sometimes maybe you need an experience. The experience can be a person or it can be a drug. The experience opens a door that was there all the time but you never saw it. Or maybe it blasts you into outer space.