Carol Crottie grows suspicious when her husband Robert, suffering from dementia, refuses to leave their home. She begins to question what really happened to his first wife Joan, who vanished with his brother two decades earlier.

After a recent break-up, Alma tries to get her life back on track. But with no job, no qualifications and a rebellious streak a mile wide, it's not going to be easy. Meanwhile her mum, who is battling a heroin addiction, has been sectioned for arson, and her vampish Grandma Joan wants nothing to do with it.