Grappling with insomnia after a particularly unpleasant breakup with Suzy, his first real girlfriend, morose artist Ben Willis finds himself drifting effortlessly between past and present, reality and fantasy. Now, with nothing but time on his hands after spending two fleeting years of unfulfilled promises and emotional overdose, Ben has an epiphany: why not trade the extra hours of sleeplessness for cash, working the night shift at Sainsbury's? But love works in mysterious ways, and as Ben's vigorous imagination runs wild, freezing time at will to decipher the inner beauty of the female form, suddenly, pretty checkout clerk Sharon catches his eye. More and more, time proves to be the ultimate adversary. Is Ben spending too much time in his frozen world?