This story is about Edward is in the throes of a quarter-life
crisis. He is quitting his job in the city to travel to Africa.To see him
off, his mother Patricia and sister Cynthia have organized a
family vacation and farewell party on Tresco in the Isles of Scilly in a
cottage they often rented years before. An invitation has also been extended to
Patricia's estranged husband, who appears to have expressed the vague intention
of coming.
His mother and sister have deemed this a family-only
vacation and have forbidden Edward to bring Chloe, his girlfriend. Even with the exclusion of Chloe, they have nonetheless invited
some outsiders: Christopher, a local artist who has been hired to teach
Patricia how to paint the beautiful surrounding landscapes. Patricia has hired a
professional cook, Rose to prepare all their meals and clean.
Things start to fall into place and the trip quickly turns
into mental crises and anxiety. Edward starts to wonder if his
mother and sister have created this whole vacation with ulterior motives of
their own. He seems all too ready to be talked out of his African plan, because
he actually doesn't have the smallest idea what to do with his life and comes
close to trying and seducing Rose.
The bitter brother-sister relationship between Edward and
Cynthia boil over over the course of the vacation and it comes to a head after
Edward thinks that not inviting Rose to sit with them at the table is
ridiculous, but it is insisted that because Rose has been hired as a cook,
asking her to join them would be uncomfortable. To make up for it, they invite
her to a restaurant meal, where Cynthia spoils it by complaining about the food.
Edward's African trip begins to look unlikely, upstaged by
the stunning reality of the Isles of Scilly themselves, so beautiful and
exotic. Rose decides to leave earlier than she had planned and instead of
saying goodbye, she leaves a note in the kitchen, which Edward finds. Towards
the end the trio pack up and say goodbye to the house and rejoin their lives
back in reality.
The cast are :
- Tom Hiddleston as Edward
- Kate Fahy as Patricia
- Lydia Leonard as Cynthia
- Amy Lloyd as Rose
- Christopher Baker as Christopher
