Gina Moxley sets her play firmly and squarely in that familiar battleground of Irish youth: the suburb.
In one house, Ger, the 14-year-old daughter, has to cope with the fairly routine hassles of a dotty mother, a single-mother sister and a benign, if occasionally careless, boyfriend.
Meanwhile next door, Pats, her new neighbour, has a brutal, abusive and absent father as well as three cowering siblings to cope with.
As a script, (even if the final plot twist feels just a little too contrived to be wholly believable) Moxley has fashioned a passable character study of the ordinary Irish teenager.
However, the main difficulties with this particular production lie with Niamh Dillon's clumsy direction.
For a script that relies on short, sharp, pointed scenes, Dillon spends far too much time changing the furniture around.
In some cases the changeover feels longer than the scene that preceded it.
This robs the play of any sense of pace, and allied to some poor diction and weak projection from the cast, conspires to deny the audience the pleasures of a mostly subtle, witty and perceptive script.
The result is an apparently able cast left struggling to convince us their drama is authentic and their solutions credible.
In the end, unfortunately, none of it seems true.