It centers on an older married couple Eddie and Sue and the bitterness and desperation that comes into their marriage once their son has left home.

[6] While Kate Bassett of The Independent on Sunday reviewed the play as a "darkly funny and remarkably poignant portrait of a marriage.

Butler's dialogue combines naturalistic chat, a musical sense of phrase and pause, and surreal episodes.

The last act is an extraordinary coup de theatre, imbued with an almost heavenly sense of new-found tenderness and atonement".

[7] Fiona Mountford of the Evening Standard called the play a "searing yet achingly poignant examination of family life turned sour" in which "the silences, laden with frustration and tension" are "just as powerful as the spoken word".