Tom Ballard is put in Bayview retirement home by his weak willed son Geoffrey and his domineering, drunk daughter-in-law Marion. Many of the residents are very passive but not retired journalist Diana Trent, whose mission in life it is to annoy 'the idiot Baines' - Harvey Baines,the home's...

The Storyteller: Adolescent Micah Frost keeps his great-great-great-grandfather alive by making up serialized stories that continue night after night. Nightsong: Disc jockey Andrea Fields plays an obscure record made by her lost lover Simon Locke, who mysteriously reappears after a long absence.