Marriage: dissected in real-time while your partner's on a driveabout.
A husband drives throughout the night on a voyage of self-discovery, while his wife waits at home, raking over the ashes of their marriage as their child sleeps in the next room.
Acting
Bean and Sharp destroy you without raising voices.
Direction
McKay makes 30 minutes feel like a lifetime lived wrong.
Director
Malcolm McKay
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was a Screen Two TV production, part of BBC's prestigious anthology series that launched dozens of British acting careers.
Made at the tail end of Thatcher's Britain, the film captures working-class marital desperation rarely shown on television—Sharp's character trapped in domestic space while Bean's man has the 'freedom' of the open road.
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