Nick is expecting to be living platonically with Toby but he is to stay in Toby’s parents’ home in Kensington Park Gardens while Toby lives elsewhere.  The ulterior motive the Feddens have is for Nick to befriend and keep an eye on their daughter Cat (Ellie Bamber) who has been self harming.  Many of the characters are people Nick met at Oxford.

Nick is gay and answers a classified ad to meet Leo (a charming Alistair Nwachukwu) whose family are from the Caribbean.  Despite being shy, Nick and Leo get on very well and have anal sex in the communal gardens at the rear of the Kensington Park Gardens house.  They are discovered there by probably the nastiest, and certainly the richest, man in the play Derek nicknamed “Badger” Brogan (Robert Portal). 

Despite being well suited and happy having Leo as his sexual partner, Nick is seduced by the high living lifestyle of the Feddens with Gerald as a rising Tory and Margaret Thatcher comes to one of their parties. Hypocrisy rules and Gerald is secretly screwing his political aide Penny (Hannah Morrish).  Nick visits Toby’s aristocratic uncle’s country pile, recognising the furniture from his father’s occupation dealing in valuable antique furniture.