A young boy struggles to maintain a degree of normality for his family in the face of his mother's mental instability in England's North West in 1971.
Follows the staff and patients of a Yorkshire cottage hospital in the 60s, embroiled in tangled love lives and bitter power struggles.
At his father's wake, a young man sets about the task of finding out more about his father by interviewing the guests. Faced with the usual platitudes and pleasantries, normally bestowed on the recently deceased, he challenges the guests to expose their honest feelings and memories...
