1970s Ireland. A young female patient has escaped a psychiatric hospital and rings home from a telephone box - but her parents are waiting for the call.
When his socks go missing in the wash, a failed science-fiction writer discovers a portal to a parallel universe in his washing machine where he meets another, better version of himself; or so it seems.
A cash-strapped dad gets a job as the mascot of a chicken takeaway to make ends meet for his young family. They need to fly the nest of his overbearing mother, but can the plucky dad make it even to his first payday, dressed as a giant chicken?
