Jack Dodds was a regular guy, so why the strange last order to have his ashes thrown off Margate pier? And why did his wife refuse to do it? As his friends make the trip to the coast they try to understand Jack's death by reliving their lives through him - the war, the children, the good times and the bad. The journey becomes a pub crawl full of drinks and punch-ups and the men discover that through it all, it's your friends who break your heart and your friends who mend it.