In his early thirties and working in a menial position at a High Street bank, John Bore is massively overweight and plagued by prostatitis. Haunted by the nickname 'Boring John' since school, his mundane existence comes to a head on one 'Particularly Shit Day' when he loses his job, is evicted from his home and is told by his stepmother, from her death bed, that his father had always been ashamed of him and indeed coined the aforementioned nickname...