After thirty years Bob and Helen find it hard to adjust to an empty nest. Dramatic events on a reconciliation holiday bring matters to a head. Is a new relationship better than a factory recondition existing marriage?
When his wife's response to her empty nest is a cliched affair with her younger boss, Bill's response is to choose a more imaginative cliche of his own.
When Mark Ferguson returned wounded to a science lab, he expected to leave behind the horrors of war. Turns out that science has its own perils, but after an excursion into lust, he finds true love - and a ready made family.