sentences:  In the late 1980s, Mark Renton is an unemployed heroin addict living in the Leith district of Edinburgh.He attempts to get off heroin, but finds it too difficult and resorts to buying opium suppositories from untrustworthy dealer Mikey Forrester.Later, at a party with his friends Simon "Sick Boy" Williamson, Francis Begbie, Danny "Spud" Murphy, Stevie and Tommy, Dawn, the infant daughter of Simon and a woman named Lesley, dies in her crib, greatly upsetting Sick Boy and inspiring him to get clean from heroin.