Follow Tom from audition to opening night of a musical spoof called BATJACK. Nerdy Tom plucks up the courage to audition for the lead. But so too does his arch enemy, the bully DYLAN. Both boys (13 years old) fantasise about having EMMA as their leading lady.

“You’ll pay for this,” swears Dylan when Tom is cast as Batjack and Dylan as his understudy. And so the battle begins – physical fights, verbal abuse, vandalism, theft... You name it – it happens.

Through a series of quirky and humorous dilemmas Tom and his friends (SONNY – shoulders spindly as a wire coat hanger, ALICE – with more piercings that a sieve, and GRACE – nibbling at her fingernails till there are only tiny slivers left) come up with ways to deal with Dylan and THE LAGER LOUTS without having to rely on the intervention of teachers or parents.