Overview
The recession is biting hard and so Emily and
Oliver have decided to downsize and shift their middle-class London
lifestyle to a small town in the north of England. They want to live and
to work and to raise their two young children in a friendly community,
among what Emily terms 'real people', away from the cold anonymity of
the city. So these left-leaning, well-educated people have invited over
two of their new neighbours in an attempt to break the ice. Tonight Alan
and Dawn are to be offered olives, anchovies and are to be introduced
to Karl Marx and abstract art. As classes and outlooks collide, the
scene is set for a meeting which will have consequences as hilarious as
they are tragic.