Willie Donaldson - not a well known name to many, but probably most famous now for )The Henry Root Letters( - was one of those figures like Peter Cook, Jeffrey Bernard and Peter Sellers whose lives and careers were marked by great brilliance and apparent self-destruction. Terence Blacker, his friend and collaborator, reveals him as an iconic anti-hero of British non-conformism and tells Willie's story in all its glamour, seediness and pain.