Christopher Bourne

Stripped of his military pension when he was outed thirty years earlier, Henry now works as a cleaner. When he meets a young ex-soldier, Jake, he learns he may be able to have his pension reinstated. Suffering from PTSD, Henry is not sure he has the strength to fight another battle, but when his former boyfriend Benji needs a place to live, the three men learn how to live, love, and be a team.

Bertha is an IT specialist, a high-flyer in everything in her life but love.

Daryl Pearson lives with his grandmother in Coventry. Abandoned there by his mother when he was a baby, he is lost and searching for his father. When a box arrives from his mother he finds more than he could hope for inside it. Adam is trying to juggle recapturing past successes and dealing with his friend's marital problems. Ominous dreams signal that there are other things at work, and love, music and fate combine to reveal the truth.

In 1978 Gus and Ben, two teenagers, are abducted by an alien force. Forty years later they are still living with the effects of that night. Ben has become an alcoholic and Gus has been hiding his true origins. Both have tried to cope in their own way, but nothing has worked. Flashing between 1978 and 2019, our protagonists are challenged at every point by friends and family, some of them still demanding to know what happened to the duo that night all those years ago.