The play opens with fourteen year old Jake taking refuge on the roof of a tower block in order to write his stories. He is a victim, the classroom 'geek'; bullied by the other boys and avoided by the girls. Before long seven other young people join him and an eighth can be heard offstage. These young people are the natural sterotypes that any group of people, particularly in school, tends to produce - the bully, the geek, Mr Cool, the Victim, the 'wannabes'. As soon as they discover Jake, the taunting begins and although at first he endeavours to hide he learns to fight back in the only way he knows how - storytelling. Soon the whole group is enmeshed in the story, enacting a fantastic tale that resonates with the dynamics of their own friendships and enmities.

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