Steve Halliwell is best known as the loveable patriarch Zak Dingle in the hit TV show Emmerdale a part he has played since 1994. He is now one of the UK's most recognisable and treasured soap stars. Yet before his success Halliwell spent many years desperately seeking work and even spent time on the streets. This warts-and-all story of his rise to fame is an inspiration. It explores the wider class history that permeated the country in the sixties and seventies and still lingers today. Above all it is an honest tale of rejection and redemption and will appeal to all who have the ambition to better themselves.