Liam and Pinball carry on selling drugs to the local area, with the help of Liam's other friends who deliver pizzas. Pinball, meanwhile, is thrown into the health club showers due to his disrespectful manner towards the dealer, and vows revenge. Liam, who only wanted a peaceful life with his mother, agrees to work with them after the local godfather tells him to 'stay away from our shops'. Liam's efforts attract the attention of the local drug 'godfather', Tony Douglas. They soon develop 'entrepreneur skills' and raise several thousand pounds, which they pay as a deposit towards the caravan in Liam's mother's name.
To purchase it he and Pinball steal a delivery of drugs from Stan's house and sell them, doing the very things Liam once hated – claiming that they will never get anywhere by selling cheap cigarettes. Liam, who loves his mother very much, fantasizes that he, his sister, and his mother can escape to the seaside and live in the caravan, away from Stan and Rab's wrath. They drive up through the Cloch caravan (trailer) park where Liam sees a caravan for sale in a spot overlooking the scenic Firth of Clyde. When Liam takes Calum for a walk along Greenock Esplanade, his friend Pinball arrives in a stolen car and insists on taking them joyriding along the coast. She has been taking free evening classes to get work in a call centre, and implores Liam to do the same because she wants Liam to do something more 'constructive' with his own life. Chantelle agrees to let Liam live in her house if he's good to Chantelle's little son, Calum. Liam then moves to his sister Chantelle's nearby home in Port Glasgow. Liam arrives back to find that he has been expelled from his grandfather's flat, and his belongings thrown down into the front garden (including his telescope, which has been broken). When driving home his companions beat him up he fights back and gets away. In the event, Liam refuses to cooperate by passing the drugs over. Stan and Rab take Liam in Rab's car on a visit to his mother in Cornton Vale Prison, and try to force him to smuggle drugs to his mother while they create a distraction. She has a boyfriend named Stan, who works as a drug dealer with Liam's grandfather, Rab. She will be released in a few weeks, in time for her son's 16th birthday. Liam's mother is currently in prison, for a crime she did not commit. They get money by illicitly selling untaxed cigarettes in a pub, and defy the police. He and his friends exemplify the violent " ned" subculture they no longer attend school, but instead, hang around isolated areas or wander about all day long. The film opens with him using his tripod-mounted telescope outdoors on a clear night to show other children the stars and planets. In a few weeks, Scottish teenager Liam will turn 16.
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