John Reilly is a 14 year old boy who is suffering from his fathers death. In his pain he flees into his own world with his singing cactus. He flees into a world of native American mysticism, Morris dancers and an omnious wolf.
Sonia is a very successful sexual health doctor, but her father is anything else than happy about that. Her parents try everything to correct her life and hook her up.
When Adam Clay walks into a rural village police station to declare he's seceding from Britain and setting up his own republic, he is unaware of the furore he's about to create. Kate Dobie, a high-flying Fleet Street journalist, is home visiting her dad, Sergeant Happy Dobie. Under pressure to return to London to uncover the next big story, Kate decides that Adam is the perfect subject. Her exclusive stories soon attract the attention of the media and the government, and journalists and photographers descend en masse on the sleepy village. Events spin out of control when Adam's estranged wife Joanna appears with their two daughters and sells her version of the story to a rival paper.
Rose Lapwood enjoys her life as married woman, but soon realises that her husband George is becoming intolerable. Her life changes dramatically when she meets Donna, one of her neighbours. Their friendship soon becomes more and so they plan to get rid of George.
Close friends John & Emma Rayner and Steve & Nicola Clarke have been married for ten years — or so they believe. But when their local priest announces in a live broadcast that he isn't Father Flaherty from Donegal but Rubin Abramovitz, the community is thrown into disarray. It dawns on the couples that they aren't actually married — a fact that gives them pause to reflect on their relationships and question whether they are really happy.
