Tagline

Rent is High, Morals are Low, and the Hustle Never Stops.

Logline

In recession-stricken Belfast, unemployed and rent dodging Steph scrambles for cash to prevent her housemates finding out their sleazy Landlord has threatened to evict them all.

Medium Synopsis (100 words)

In recession-stricken Belfast, Steph, an unemployed 20-something, stops paying rent in protest when her sleazy landlord refuses to fix a broken boiler. After he threatens to evict her and her housemates, Steph scrambles for cash to keep her actions a secret. Desperate, she tries and fails to reclaim her old job, busks for change, and even alienates her housemates in the process. Due to her chaotic and flawed decisions, Steph needs to use her rebellious drive and quick thinking help her pull off a win. Can she gain a moral victory that’s as messy and imperfect as she is?

Bootlickers is an edgy comic coming-of-age story that blends the frustrations of modern adulthood with the anarchic spirit of Belfast’s youth, highlighting the struggles of a generation facing a collapsing housing market, economic disparity, and a lack of clear direction.

Full Synopsis

A ‘Bootlicker’ is someone who readily sucks up to the rich and powerful. 

Cringe. Steph would rather die.

Bootlickers is a comedy set in a crumbling Belfast about Steph, a completely broke woman in her mid 20s and her gang of flatmates. Steph has had enough of her greedy, sleazy landlord, her never ending job hunt, and pretending everything is fine. 

When the boiler in their freezing house share breaks mid shower and the landlord refuses to fix it, Steph decides she’s done paying rent. Her stand quickly spirals into chaos when the landlord threatens to evict the whole house unless she coughs up.

Steph launches a desperate and mostly useless attempt to get the money. She tries to find a job, but there’s nothing going. She begs for her old job back, but it’s already filled. She even busks, but the city gives her nothing but grief. When her housemates discover she’s the reason they might all be kicked out, things fall apart fast.

But just when it seems like she’s burned every bridge and backed herself into a corner, Steph stumbles into a stroke of dumb luck.

A scrappy, fast-paced story about entitlement, survival, and the grey area between rebellion and selfishness, Bootlickers is a sharp snapshot of a generation trying and mostly failing to make it through late-stage capitalism with their dignity (and house keys) intact.