Alderson Lupton, one day to become one of the world's most successful pop musicians, is in BULK RATES a country boy lost for the last few yeas in the big city. Time is the late 1980s. Struggling to find a direction for himself amid the bleak and grim realities of the capital's Bedsitland, he finds himself pitted against despair and landlords who first teach him the magnetic addiction of malicious hatred...