Forty is a rather traumatic age. For Linda Harper, it certainly appears to be, dissatisfied spiritually and physically with her seventeen-year-marriage to the slightly staid George, Linda decides to leave. In fact it is George who moves out, giving Linda a chance to “find herself” through a variety of curses including aerobics and sculpting. When George returns to the family home a few weeks later to sort out maintenance arrangements with the help of neighbours Roger and Betty, however, he and Linda discover the flames of passion are not quite dead, albeit in need of a little fanning.