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==Plot==
[[Heroin addiction|Heroin addicts]] Mark Renton; the film's protagonist and narrator, with Daniel "Spud" Murphy are running down Edinburgh's [[Princes Street]] doing his "Choose Life" monologue while being pursued by store security guards. Renton's circle of friends are introduced: [[Amorality|amoral]] con artist Simon "Sick Boy" Williamson (also an addict), simple-minded, good-natured Daniel "Spud" Murphy, clean-cut non-addict athlete Tommy MacKenzie, and [[sociopath]] Francis "Franco" Begbie, who
Renton decides to quit heroin and buys [[opium]] [[Suppository|rectal suppositories]] from Mikey Forrester to ease the transition. After this final hit (and a violent spell of [[diarrhea]] caused by cessation of heroin) he locks himself into a cheap hotel room to endure [[Heroin#Withdrawal|withdrawal]]. He later goes with his friends to a club, finding that his sex drive has returned, and eventually leaves with a young woman named Diane. In the morning, he realises that Diane is a fifteen-year-old schoolgirl and that her "flatmates" are actually her parents. Horrified, Renton tries to shake the incident, but is forced to remain in touch after Diane blackmails him.
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