Liverpool, England - 2002. Keva McCluskey is down and almost out. Despondent, embittered by the meteoric rise of former support band, Sensira, he's close to quitting his dream - of leading his own group, the Grams, to the acclaim and success they unquestionably deserve.

But fortune starts to smile when the Grams get picked up by Guy da Burret, a hot young producer with a point to prove who is launching a new label. So begins the Grams' roller-coaster ride to the top.

Fame, money, drugs, women - they get more of all of these than they can cope with. But it's on their return to America, for a gruelling 35-city tour to crack this elusive but enormously lucrative market, that things truly start to unravel.