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.
Second Messenger
Henry Bolingbroke has now been crowned King of England, but faces a rebellion headed by the embittered Earl of Northumberland and his son (nicknamed 'Hotspur'). Henry's son Hal, the Prince of Wales, has thrown over life at court in favour of heavy drinking and petty theft in the company of a debauched elderly knight, Sir John Falstaff. Hal must extricate himself from some legal problems, regain his father's good opinions and help suppress the uprising.
Man in Bedroom
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.
