The two hander Biscuits for Breakfast is about life for a young couple in a small Cornish town, near Newlyn, where one hotel is about the only employer. There was also a trawler fishing industry there.

We first meet Paul (Ben Castle-Gibb), as a child, when we hear his father on tape telling him that he will always have a future as a chef, that people will always value his cooking skills and teaching the boy to cook. Along with this paternal message of independence comes the impression that Paul will stand alone and never have to ask anyone else for help as that would be a sign of weakness.

Fast forward and Paul is training as a chef at the Regent Hotel; he’s on soups and sauces. His ambition is to write a cookery book collecting together his recipés and open a restaurant. He notices Joanne (Boadicea Ricketts) who is hard to approach and very cautious about social contact. Joanne works in the hotel and Paul eventually persuades her to come round for a meal. His culinary skills work a treat and they both savour his food with choreographed sniffing and waving hands in the air. They have several more meals and start to find out about each other.

The hotel closes, we are not sure whether this is due to the pandemic or just a fall in those wanting to stay in seaside hotels in the UK. Joanna loses her job as a chambermaid and comes to Paul’s flat and asks to stay as her job was residential. Unemployment for both brings a cycle of poverty but Joanne gets a job in a factory where she makes garlic bread for supermarkets. Paul is unemployed and not willing to also work in the garlic bread factory.