Synopsis:

Danny is a scruffy small-time hustler, small in stature with a sharp eye for a scam.  Joseph is a giant of a man, but with the mental age of a seven-year-old and gentle as a lamb despite his extraordinary strength.  Living together in their run-down inner-city flat, this odd couple are opposites who can't live without each other; a unique friendship in a violent world.  They've been friends for years, but their relationship is about to be pushed to the limit.

Danny is in trouble. Big trouble. He owes drugs money to local crime boss Curtis, who wants the money or the drugs.  Danny doesn't have either - every penny he begs or borrows, he immediately spends on drink, drugs or prostitutes.  To pay off his drug debt, Curtis gives Danny one option - Joseph must fight in the terrifying underworld world of bare-knuckle boxing.

As the violence escalates, both men meet women who could offer them a chance of escape.  Danny begins a relationship with a prostitute named Lisa, while Joseph stumbles into an awkward romance with the sweet, simple Isabel.  But in a succession of increasingly savage fights, Danny begins to realise he cannot bear to see his innocent friend being brutally beaten and bruised.  Something has to give, but in this touching drama of bleeding hearts and faces will Danny and Joseph survive?

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