by John Hopkins.
With Margery Mason as Mother
and Maurice Denham, Michael Bryant, Judi Dench.

The final part of the John Hopkins quartet goes back in time to the Sunday morning before Terry pays her unexpected visit to her parents' home. Mrs. Stephens is preparing the lunch as she has done for the past thirty years...

The author gets right inside the mother's mind and gives us an insight of the terrible, engulfing blackness that can overcome her during the routine, day-to-day existence.

This play won for John Hopkins the Guild of Television Producers and Directors Award for the best script of 1967.

(First shown on BBC-2)