On a cold December Sunday, book-seller Jack Carter struggles
through the ritual of making breakfast for his wife Eva, whose
dementia confines her body to her bed and her mind to a world of
its own. Jack is an old man failing to cope with the modern world.
He wages a constant battle with Margaret, Eva's carer, and tries to
fend off Dodie, Eva's bossy best friend, who has decided that Jack
too is losing his marbles and the time has come for the two of them
to go into a home. Jack's wandering mind makes frequent journeys to
the past. Among the ghosts he conjures are his sexually repressed,
religiously obsessed mother, and his friend and mentor, Bob Pride,
whose own past is closely linked with Oscar Wilde. The gaps in
Jack's memories and day-dreams are filled by Eva, and gradually
their story unfolds. It's the love story of a couple married for
nearly sixty years whose complete failure to communicate is hidden
behind an apparently shared love of books. But there is also The
Great Man, a famous local writer who chooses this day to come and
call. Comical and acerbic, he pushes Jack to confront the past,
until the truth finally emerges.
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