Trilogía compuesta por los tres primeros cortometrajes de Davies ("Children" (1976), "Madonna and Child" (1980) y "Death and Transfiguration" (1983)), que corresponden a distintas etapas de la vida de Robert Tucker: su opresiva infancia, marcada por los malos tratos de su padre y de sus compañeros de colegio; su madurez como gris oficinista atormentado por su homosexualidad, siempre al lado de su madre; y sus últimos días, en los que se ve asaltado por dolorosos recuerdos del pasado.
Robert Tucker, a young gay man who is almost without affect, sits in various waiting rooms. As he sits, he recalls events from the year of his childhood when his father dies. He's ten or eleven that year, picked on by bullies at the Catholic school he attends. He seems friendless. At home, his mother is quiet, his father is ill and angry. After his father's death, there's a wake, the coffin arrives, the body is removed. The lad grieves, alone.
