The hardhitting story of a young man determined to find his voice Plucked from obscurity in Glasgow Rab Dillon is about to become the next great protest singer Seduced by promises of stardom carrying only the guitar given to him by the girl who broke his heart he travels down to London There he records the debut album that will speak to the dispossessed the disenfranchised and disheartened One year later he is sleeping rough on the streets of Brighton A modernday ballad set across three cities and two years The Busker is a richly comic expose of the music industry the Occupy movement homelessness squatting and failing to live up to the name you almost share with your hero It is also the story of what survives when the flimsy dreams of fame fall apart