When Gemma, a rebellious 14-year-old bored with life in her small seaside town, decides to run away to join her boyfriend Tar in London, the pair are offered shelter in a squat. They meet two heroin addicts and are themselves soon hooked, while Gemma is forced into prostitution to pay for the drug.
This stage version of the prize-winning novel by Melvin Burgess is a graphic and unstinting portrayal of teenage drug addiction, underage sex and violence. Tar loves Gemma, but Gemma doesn't want to be tied down -- not to anyone or anything. As Tar says to the audience: "It was a love story -- me, Gemma and Junk".