Fran may be old but she's not going without a fight. So she dyes her hair, enjoys every glass of red wine and lives in an insalubrious tower block that her loved ones disapprove of. And as each of them - her pampered ex Claude, old friend Jo, flamboyant son Christopher and earnest daughter Poppet - seeks happiness in their own way, what will the last reckoning be? By turns joyous and profound, darkly sardonic and moving.