It’s 2004. A young writer-to-be is having doubts. To clear his head he embarks on a road trip with pals starting at rainy Grasmere. Hopes don’t rise there.

In the best tradition of classic novels of the 1960s, he is torn between two girls.

Meanwhile, his university lecturer is breaking down in a rundown pub on the edge of town and his young nephew’s illness has set a fault-line through the entire family.

A lot of life impacting – sad, happy, funny, all of it.