The play has scenes from the month of Miriam’s son Oscar’s disappearance, to a year later and then seven years later.  He was 15 years old; his mother and father David (Paul Higgins) had just told him that they were divorcing.  Boys at school had teased him about wearing braces on his teeth. 

Oscar has two siblings, Margaret (Ella Lily Hyland) a full sibling and older, and Nancy (Alby Baldwin) a half sibling from her mother’s first marriage to Karl Gomez (Martin Marquez).  The first marriage had both mother and father drowning in alcoholism.  Miriam became sober; Karl became a vicar. 

David, seven years after Oscar’s disappearance hankers after organising a memoriam for Oscar, a celebration of his life but Miriam rejects the idea and prefers instead to follow up on a sighting of Oscar in Ghent on the same day as the planned memoriam.  Miriam feels that they are trying to achieve closure but she is never going to give up on her son. 

The excellent central performance is that of Nicola Walker but Ella Lily Hyland is also moving as the child her mother neglects showing no interest in her grandchild.  Margaret gives a moving explanation as to how her mother has been totally absorbed in the search for Oscar and has paid less attention to her other children.