Past and present intertwine: An elderly couple returns to the hotel where they became close when they were young and flashbacks to the earlier visit reveal the origins of both their pleasures and problems. Somewhere between the past and the present, Dennis Potter attempted to find "the shape of a life, of two lives..."

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Cast

Peggy Ashcroft

Jean Wilsher

Lionel Jeffries

Bernard Wilsher

Shelagh McLeod

Young Jean

Peter Chelsom

Young Bernard

Faith Brook

Mrs. Wilsher

Martin Shaw

Jack Butcher