Short synopsis
When one whispered word can be a death sentence.
This is the end for Rab Smith. And it begins when he meets a beautiful woman with a strange sexual perversion. But it’s only when he finds a death certificate, with his name on it and dated two weeks from now, that the countdown begins – the last 14 days of Rab’s life.
His brother, Billy, is 17 and has plans to be Scotland’s next great actor – the new Sean Connery, the next Robert Carlyle. In the meantime he prostitutes pretty young girls to dirty old men, but this soon attracts the attention of a local gangster, landing Billy in some serious trouble. Rab is reluctant to help, but after his father gets involved he feels he has no choice: he’ll have to kill a very dangerous and well-protected local hardman, before his own death - next Friday.
This is the story of two very different brothers with two very different ideas of how to escape their routine, working class lives. It’s largely told from Rab’s point of view but we also get the stories of the people who influence him most in those last few days, letting us see Rab as others see him.
Foolish Notions is a dark but funny tale of murder and suicide, board games and pinpricks. It’s about how the indecisive make decisions and how the irresponsible fake, but don’t take, responsibility.
