Alice, the result of a teenage mistake, was brought up largely by her grandparents. She’s a nurse, earnest, affectionate, keen to do the right thing by everyone. Her grandmother has died, and Alice is shocked by how difficult it is to communicate with her grandfather now that this warm female conduit has gone. She tries asking about his past; he was in the RAF in Kenya in the Fifties at the time of the Mau Mau insurrection. He witnessed things there that he’s never talked about. What horrors will be unleashed when he breaks his silence?
Joseph is a decorator, good at his job, but strangely unsettled for a man of 30. He meets Alice in a pub; she likes his smile. His flat’s almost unfurnished; he drifts in and out of his sister’s house. Soon he drifts into Alice’s. He’s nice; she tells him things and he listens, but she doesn’t get much information in return. There are gaps, absences, withdrawals. His sister seems to keep an anxious eye on him. Like Alice’s grandfather, Joseph has an undisclosed past.
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