Young Patrick "Kitten" Braden flees Ireland for the sexually liberated city of London during the politically tumultuous 1970s, where Northern Irish Catholics were fighting it out against the British crown. Starting life as an adandoned child, the neverthless friendly and compassionate Irishman is on a quest to find love and a place to call home. There he becomes a transvestite prostitute and gets himself involved in an IRA bombing campaign.