An unconventional love story of a romantic friendship in South London, but deception, dementia and long kept family secrets threaten to destroy everything.
Jameson, a quiet, sexless outsider and his younger sister, the chaotic Roses, care for their mother, Wanda, at the family home in Peckham Rye. She was once a glamorous ‘60s icon, but is now in the later stages of dementia. Their father abandoned the family long ago and Jameson decides, now Wanda can no longer forbid it, to attempt to find out what happened.
At a school reunion he discovers a childhood friend has died, leaving behind a widower with two children. He insinuates his way into their lives through mild deception and they become very close.
Meanwhile Roses’ complicated love life takes an unexpected turn involving Jameson’s best friend and Agnes, an old woman who once cleaned for the family, is visited by a strange cat and feels obliged to return something precious she should not have taken when she was fired all those years before.
They discover in different ways the comfort and strength to be gained from just being there with others and how enjoyment of the little things in life may help to compensate for the tougher challenges most of us face.