A play about an ambitious young manager of a Dixons-style electrical warehouse who gets saddled with a 65-year-old re-trainee on a frenetic bank holiday.
Em 1993 a guerra da Bósnia está em seu momento mais crítico e vários refugiados da Iugoslávia estão chegando na Inglaterra. Quatro típicas famílias londrinas terão suas vidas transformadas pelo conflito e pelos refugiados da guerra.
Unexpected events occur when Pat, a glamorous British-born star of American soaps, returns home to plug her auto-biography on television and meets, for the first time since they were teenagers, Margaret her plain and frumpy younger sister. The meeting is painful for both women highlighting the vast differences in their lives and resurrecting painful memories of their unhappy childhood with an uncaring, errant mother. The tabloid press smell a juicy story and a race ensues to trace the whereabouts of the long lost parent.