Annie and Duncan are approaching forty, and they have been together for fifteen years. They live in a small city on the English coast, one of those grey places where the British working classes used to holiday before the rise of low cost airlines and all inclusive holidays allowed them to discover Spanish wine and sun. They are both public servants (Annie works the city’s museum and Duncan is a teacher), they live a peaceful life of small pleasures and they seem made for one another. But they are on the brink of feared adulthood, and Annie is troubled by the passing of time in which they seem completely submerged, without passion or excitement, by the ending of youth without offers for the future, and above all, without children. Because all of the passion of the methodical and organised Duncan is concentrated on Tucker Crowe, an American musician who after releasing a desolate and splendid album, Juliet, disappeared forever from the music scene.