Anna is an ordinary woman in an extraordinary situation. She?s having a baby, the father?s gay, her lover?s a woman and she still hasn?t told her parents. Her best friend Ruby is feckless, forty and fondling every man she can. Her neighbours are the OAPs from Hell and across the road Greg is pining for Acorn, the eco-poet who abandoned him with their baby. Into all this walks Shirley. She?s left her provincial home and desperately needs a life: but...