Edward (Hiddleston) is in the throes of a Midlife crisis. He is quitting his job in the city to travel to Africa, doing volunteer educational work to promote safe sex and combat the spread of HIV/AIDS. To see him off, his mother Patricia (Fahy) and sister Cynthia (Leonard) have organised a family holiday and List of French phrases party on Tresco, Isles of Scilly in the Isles of Scilly in a cottage they often rented years before. An invitation has also been extended to Patricia's estranged husband, who appears to have expressed the vague intention of coming.