Jim Sturgess is a - actually I'm not sure what his job is, oh yes, he's a music writer - and he seems obsessed with a relationship he had as a teenager in the 1980s (cue inevitable miners' strike footage) with a young girl - they are played in flashback by Rory Walton-Smith and Florence Hunt. She has grown up to be writer Teresa Palmer and lives in Australia - they both came from Sheffield. She's also found out her teenager daughter is pregnant,
As their own relationships begin to crumble they inevitably steer a course towards one another, whilst the flashbacks continue - why did she leave Sheffield so suddenly, without warning, and why did he not reply to her letters.? It's very well handled and makes for a most satisfying romantic relationship story. Spain adapted it from Jane Sanderson's novel.
Apart from a wrong move from mother, his parents are terrific - Mark O'Halloran and who? whilst her mother is the disastrous drunk Helen Behan (The Virtues). Julia Savage is the daughter down under. There's a couple of extraneous children we don't even meet who might as well not be in it.
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