James Gibbons
Stuart Shorter y Alexander Marsters. Un vagabundo alcohólico de pasado violento y un escritor que trabaja en ayudas sociales. Cuando entre ellos se crea una insólita amistad, Alexander le pide permiso para escribir su historia y Stuart la va desvelando hacia atrás, "para hacerla más emocionante". A través de atracos, intentos de suicidio, encierros en numerosas instituciones y traumas infantiles, Alexander ofrece al mundo un vistazo dentro de un mundo totalmente ajeno para comprender cómo la vida de Stuart quedó tan fuera de control.
Owen
40-year-old Arnold Gardner is put in charge of the talk show "The Twenty-fifth Hour" after the death of the former host Duncan Mackay. His role on screen creates immediate interest and the program becomes a great success with TV audiences. This proves to be a period of great satisfaction for Arnold, but his childhood friend, Eddie Greenberg, suddenly comes on the scene. Eddie is ill and frustrated by lack of success, and is so resentful and envious of Arnold's fame that he wants him to make a full public confession of a "sin" he committed in his young days.
