Folly Lane present's Smyth's existential consideration of his home town, Downpatrick, the burial place of St Patrick, an ancient ordinary retreat existing uneasily in a new millennium. Atrocities, literature, folklore, the arts of barbering and the ambiguous downfall of tyrants join the absurdities of automated checkouts overblown advertising copy, methods of execution , the ravaging of Africa and the perils of aspirin. Periodic apparitions from real life appear - Cicero, Roger Casement, Jeanne d'Arc, medieval detectives, miracles, the murdered journalist Lyra McKee, William Orr - from the multitudes of history's bereft and orphaned.