Rat 2000 Dublin deliveryman Hubert Flynn feels peaked Home from the pub, he lies down while his nagging wife Conchita looks on, he turns into a rat Shes chafed at how inconsiderate he is hardly touching his food the next morning and leaving droppings on the good doilies With curiosity seekers outside the flat and a writer at the door offering to help Conchita turn her story into a book, she calls a family meeting Her seminary bound son Pius wants to kill the rat other family members are ambivalent They opt to hurl Hubert over the fence of a maggot farm Christmas approaches an exorcism is in the cards, and the book becomes the Holy Grail What of Huberts conversion