English VErsion of Plot Summary

Rating: Null/10 (31 January 2014)

Jimmy Rabbitte Jr., who lives on small gimmicks in a proletarian district of Dublin, has put her mind to organize a musical band for greening the glories of rhythm blues and soul &. Thanks to an ad in the newspaper, Rabbitte Jr. begins to select young people from precarious work but full of talent: Dean, Fay, 595, the bespectacled Steven Clifford, Deco, the fat one without good manners but with a great voice, Billy drummer and Joey "The lips", a bizarre and mature senior trumpet player who prides himself on having played with famous soul singers. Aggregates also Natalie, Imelda and Bernie, three plucky girls, excellent singers and very sexy. Procuratisi on credit instruments, begin trials, exhausting, that engage everyone. He began playing in public, in sheds and social festivities: the Group seems pervaded by music fire and ambition. The band, though amateurish and provincial, looks towards the Summit launched and ends in failure: friction, jealousies and small human and artistic disagreements, the Group flaking. Jimmy's dream evaporates into thin air and that great wealth of energy and skill that could yield money and success: siPL dissipates into nothingness.