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South London, 2008. Two couples find themselves at a moment of reckoning, on the brink of acceptance or revolution. Melissa has a new baby and doesn’t want to let it change her, but in the crooked walls of a narrow Victorian terrace, she begins to disappear. Michael, growing daily more accustomed to his commute, still loves Melissa but can’t quite get close enough to her to stay faithful. Meanwhile, out in the suburbs, Stephanie is happy with Damian and their three children, but the death of Damian’s father has thrown him into crisis - or is it something, or someone, else? 

Identical twins Georgia and Bessi live in the loft of 26 Waifer Avenue. Down below, their Nigerian mother puts cayenne pepper on Yorkshire pudding, and their father roams the streets of Neasden, prey to the demons of his Derbyshire upbringing. Forced to create their own identities, the Hunter children build a separate universe. But when reality comes knocking, the fantasies of childhood start to give way. How will Georgia and Bessi cope in the adult world?

Es ist nicht lange her, dass Melissa und Michael, von ihren Freunden liebevoll M & M genannt, das allseits bewunderte Paar waren. Doch jetzt ist ihre Ehe so einsturzgefährdet wie ihr Einfamilienhaus im Süden Londons. Melissa ist gerade Mutter geworden, aber statt Erfüllung empfindet sie Überforderung und sucht Trost bei den nigerianischen Eintöpfen und Zaubern ihrer Mutter. Das macht Michael, der sich ein aufregendes Leben ohne Kinder zurückwünscht, nur noch unzufriedener. Und da gibt es noch ein anderes Paar: Damian und Stephanie - und ihre drei Kinder.

As a child Lucas assumed that all children who’d lost their parents lived on water. Now a restless young man, and still sharing the West London narrowboat with his down-to-earth sister Denise, he secretly investigates the contents of an old wardrobe, in which he finds relics from the Midnight Ballet, an influential dance company of the 1960s founded by his Jamaican father, the charismatic Antoney Matheus.