Charlotte Couchman

名画『ホイッスラーの母』がロスに買い戻されることになったため、ロンドンの美術館は厄介払いも兼ねてビーンを派遣する。ロスで画商のデビッドに会ったビーンは、彼の家に居候することになる。だが、名画の前でくしゃみをしたため、鼻水で画は台無し。名画の披露パーティが刻々と迫るなか、ビーンは奇想天外な方法で名画の復元を行う。

Marla Darland is blessed with the voice of an angel, a singing legend. But when her agent, Marty Starr, finds his agency in trouble, he concocts a sinister plot to bring up her record sales. Amazed at the posthumous record sales of Elvis and Jimi Hendrix, Marty becomes determined to arrange a similar fate for Marla, staging the perfect tragic demise. But he didn't count on Marla not being quite ready to go.

Set during a long, hot summer on the Thamesmead Estate in Southeast London, three teenagers edge towards adulthood.