Glaswegian dentist Philip black approaches his 50th birthday with trepidation. Fate lends a hand in the shape of a polish ventriloquist who slumps dead in his chair during a routine extraction. Seizing the moment Black appropriates the man's identity and throws himself into the unknown. Armed with the deceased's passport and huge trunk containing the dummy Black lands in Poland. However he finds that neither being a ventriloquist nor speaking one word of Polish is the least of his problems. Enter Ludek, a manic depressive midget who offers a possible route to salvation.