Jack, a builder, is working at the Lodge guest house. His health isn't good, so should he be digging and laying concrete? The Lodge is full, giving Cleo, who runs it, a headache. The more so, as a guest is blackmailing her; her son turns up out of the blue and she has to find space for him. Clyde, a guest, should not be in town at all if he wants to go on living. So why is he here? All together at the barbecue, tensions running high, a discarded wife...