Characters
Johnny (Nicholas Cowell)
Johnny lives like a hermit - a hermit with wireless internet access and a big telly but a hermit nonetheless. He tries to avoid doing things as much as possible so he can avoid things going wrong. They've gone wrong in the past you see. Romantically mostly. He thought that doing almost nothing would be his ideal life but it didn't work out that way.
Jane (Eilidh McDonald)
Working as a proof-reader doesn't really suit Jane which is why she often takes a break to scribble a little story in her notebook. She writes fairytales set in Glasgow but she's never really had the nerve to show them to anyone. Like Johnny, she mostly lives inside of her own head as she's scared to ask the real world for what she wants. She has been going out with her boyfriend Tim for five years.
Alex (Tich Watson)
Johnny's best friend Alex swanned off for a year to do a variety of cool jobs in cool cities around the world. Opportunities just seem to land in his lap. He imagines that it's like that for everyone and, as a result, struggles to empathise with other people's struggles. His charm tends to get him whatever he wants, not that he ever really knows what that might be.
Audrey (Gillian Dodds)
Junior doctor and Jane's best friend, Audrey has a confidence that conquers all before her. She finds men to be a bit of a pushover and so tends to seek out the difficult ones. She's posh and from London and considers living in Glasgow to be roughing it.
Tanya (Lisa May Cooper)
Tanya is a much tougher cookie than her wee brother Johnny. She has raised her seven-year-old daughter on her own and has never encountered any problem she couldn't overcome. She is sick of the winmpy 'new' men she meets and longs for someone (like Alex) who sees past her motherhood.
Jenny (Iona McHugh)
Tanya's daughter Jenny tells it like it is. She thinks her uncle Johnny is a 'dafty' and clearly more of a child than she is. She berates him for 'smoking weeds' but still likes him to read her bedtime stories.
Tim (Paul Welsh)
Tim's first novel was a success but he has struggled to write anything since. It was a love story set against the Cuban revolution but there are those who doubt he has ever been there. He sees himself as some kind of romantic poet figure.