Based on the fairytale by Hans Christian Andersen, The Tinderbox is a comedy set in modern day, Butte, America, the most Irish City outside of Ireland. Johnny, a shell-shocked Soldier returns from war and falls in love with a beautiful girl who is kept locked in a tower by her paranoid father. Wracked by poverty and mental illness, the Soldier can only dream of ever being with his love....Until one cold, dark night when he discovers that the old tinderbox on his mantel will summon an oversized, inebriated leprechaun who can bring him anything he desires in the twinkling of an eye.