Trapped in a dreary existence under their grandmother's thumb, Manchester sisters Ellie and Arden Brooks find liberation in 1965 when rock musicians Dallas McCabe and the Ice Cubes sweep into their lives.

Ellie and Arden Brooks seem to be destined to play out their lives behind a Manchester chip shop counter. Mercilessly put down by their strict grandmother, the swinging sixties have yet to impact upon their fun-starved, sexually repressed lives. But it's 1965 and times are changing - fast! From the depths of the Excelsior Ballroom, Dallas McCabe and the Ice Cubes are about to release their own brand of rock n' roll on an unsuspecting world - and their fatal charms on the sisters—fmtoorawa