Based on a true story, Sid (Tom Blyth) is withdrawn son of an alcoholic mother and an absent father. His only goal is to work hard, get through his exams, escape and build his own life. On the other hand Scott (Richard Mason) is an unloved foster child who's been expelled from multiple schools because of his uncontainable temper.

As their friendship takes root they find something in each other that will make them aspire to bigger goals in the life full of despair and limited ambitions they feel they live. Both friends write a list of goals and begin pursuing each one in turn to create a better life, becoming "Dreamchasers" aspiring for bigger things, even if it means putting themselves in real danger from gangsters.