Tommy brings us on a whistle-stop tour of his years in secondary school, where he discovers his singing voice and falls in love for the first time.  Convinced that he is going to be a global superstar he forgoes sitting his Leaving Cert and signs up with a local promoter who puts him to work in a posh Killiney Hotel.  There he meets his new love and soon to be wife, Dymphna, who steals his heart and his virginity in the back of a Fiat Ritmo.