The play catches Foreskin at a point of crisis. With one foot in the rarified world of the university and the other in the playing fields of his hometown rugby club, Foreskin (a rugby nickname) begins to find the two worlds unmarriable.

He admires the people in the team for their raw vitality but when these qualities begin to be undermined by personal and team ambition at the sacrifice of the individual and the spirit of the game, Foreskin finds himself unable to move with these changing values.