INDEPENDENT FILM FOR INDEPENDENT MINDS

Tom (Jim Broadbent) and Gerri (Ruth Sheen) have managed to remain blissfully happy into their autumn years, but over the course of four seasons of one average year, their happiness contrasts with the unhappiness of friends, colleagues, and family. Mary (Lesley Manville), who works as a secretary where Gerri is a counsellor, is a long divorced single aching for male company - or just company; Ken (Peter Wright) is an overindulgent loner but not by choice; Ronnie (David Bradley) is Tom's withdrawn and grieving brother, whose son Carl (Martin Savage) is estranged and angry.