Johnny, in his Brian Cox T-shirt, is bit of a geek: super bright when it comes to knowing about the universe; less so when it comes to negotiating his way through school, where he clashes with his teacher and fails to fit in with his classmates.
And then there's Hassan, also a misfit in the classroom, who reluctantly teams up with 'Space Boy' on a school project that pitches them together in an exploration of stars and constellations - and, as it turns out, of each other, as they gradually open up about long-suppressed feelings and past sadness that nobody else seems to have bothered to ask about before.
For the audience listening in, this new two-hander play - a debut by up-and-coming writer Alison Scurfield - is at turns funny and moving and, ever so gradually, it becomes truly affecting as we learn more about the reason Johnny feels so passionate about space and why Hassan is reluctant to share more information about his family.
