invites her mother and Bruce on a double date with herself and Darren. May leaves when Paula makes a show of kissing Darren, and Bruce pursues her. He takes her home and coerces her into having sex that she doesn't want or enjoy. May goes to Paula's but finds no comfort as Paula is pleased to think her mother and Bruce were probably intimate. Paula tells May that she has given Darren an ultimatum to leave his wife by the following day, and, expecting that he will, tells May that she must leave. Bobby tells Darren he must finish the conservatory or leave as he has a deadline and wants to sell the house. Darren is disillusioned and frustrated by his life and his lack of autonomy and fights with May, seeking to assert himself by making May perform fellatio on him. May wants to please Darren but is reluctant because he is being rough and aggressive. Things only become worse when May reveals that the financial "help" she had earlier promised him would be a plane ticket, to allow them to travel together, rather than cash as he had been anticipating. Darren loses his temper and insults her, before proceeding to smash up the conservatory he had been working on for Bobby. Later, Paula tells her mother that what might make her feel better would be to hit her. May agrees and Paula punches May in the face. They visit Bobby's house where Helen is showing an estate agent round, and Darren is busy repairing the conservatory with Bobby. May has a black eye that she explains as an argument and says she 'got the message', before saying goodbye to everyone, refusing a lift to the station and preferring to leave alone. May returns home, but only long enough to collect her passport, before walking away with her suitcase, sketchbooks and passport in hand. Cast Anne Reid as May, Bobby and Paula's mother, Toots' widow Daniel Craig as Darren, Bobby's friend and Paula's lover, a skilled carpenter Peter Vaughan as Toots, May's husband and Bobby and Paula's father Danira Gović as Au Pair Steven Mackintosh as Bobby, son of May and Toots, and brother to Paula Cathryn Bradshaw as Paula, daughter of May and Toots, and sister to Bobby Anna Wilson-Jones as Helen, Bobby's wife Oliver Ford Davies as Bruce, an older man, May's date Harry Michell as Harry,