Julian Mann the hard drinking preening and sexually provocative star of the TV sitcome Richard the Nerd feels caught on the horns of a dilemma: should he be concentrating on his career which is on the slide after an unseemly bout of fisticuffs at the BAFTA awards; or following his baser instincts and bedding every young girl in sight?

His twin dreams of comic immortality and a penthouse flat full of booze and young models seem to be frustrated by his wife and children; by Tom his wife's best friend from university days a pretentious 'National Theatre Player' who appears to be competing with Julian on the small sreen and in the bedroom; by the tax man who's chasing him for sixty thousand pounds; and by Lillith a psychotic fan and member of a strange Herculean cult whose eight-year cycle of death and regeneration might augur Julian's imminent nemesis...