Inept handyman Dennis is selling his wife Vera's car, and Neil comes to buy it, except it's for his wife Pam. However, Pam would rather buy it with money of her own, which she doesn't have, because she gave up her promising career to bring up their son.

During the course of a live radio broadcast, a disc-jockey is made forcibly aware that he's getting old.

Twin plays about contrasting couples: a city husband and wife who dream of a life elsewhere, and a rural brother and sister who have never left the countryside.

Disaster strikes when a member of an upper-crust male voice quarter suddenly dies, and the only available replacement is a local plumber.