‘What’s wrong?” says a husband to his wife when he finds her rustling up hot milk in the small hours of the morning. “I’m not sure I love you any more,” she replies and her words leave the ground shaking beneath this couple’s feet.
It is an arresting opening to a marital reckoning which is a confrontation with midlife itself: its yearnings, disappointments and wrong turns unravelled in this capacious Essex kitchen-cum-living room, as Maggie (Claire Rushbrook) and Gary (Daniel Ryan) wrestle out their differences.