by Jack Pulman
The play is set in a house in West London, at the present time.

For young Harvey Green, life has reached a baffling crossroads. At seventeen, with his schooling over and his future uncertain, he lives with his widower father and sister in a crumbling, characterless part of London which has nothing to offer save despair. But Harvey is sensitive and intelligent, though at variance with the world he has been born into. With his father contemplating a second marriage and trying to steer him into some kind of secure employment, Harvey's dreams seem remote and beyond fulfilment.
In this first play for BBC television, Jack Pulman has carefully created the atmosphere and the awkwardness of adolescence and set it realistically in the surroundings of a home divided within itself.