Leslie Phillips Jodie Whittaker Richard Griffiths Vanessa Redgrave Peter O'Toole Joanna Bacon Neal Barry Christine Bottomley Cathryn Bradshaw Tom Brooke Emma Buckley Daniel Cerqueira Paul Chahidi Lolita Chakrabarti Joanna Croll Tim Faraday Philip Fox Carolina Giammetta Piers Harrisson Sam Kenyon Kate Lock Ashley Madekwe Liam McKenna Rosie Michell Tom Mison Meg Wynn Owen Corin Redgrave Julian Rhind-Tutt Andrea Riseborough Beatrice Savoretti Kellie Shirley Marlene Sidaway Sam Spruell Ony Uhiara Harvey Virdi Bronson Webb
Maurice and Ian are old friends, veteran English actors who never hit the big time. Now in their seventies, they continue to work (Maurice, for example, is playing a corpse in a television drama) but their comfortable routines and banter over breakfast in a favorite café are disrupted by the arrival from the provinces of Ian's grand-niece, Jessie. She quickly tries her great-uncle's patience. But Maurice is taken with the girl, and proceeds to show her the cultural sights of the capital. tries to teach Jessie something about life, but in the process he is surprised to discover how very little he actually knows now that his own life is drawing to a close.
