Jay is a bartender who abandoned his family because his wife lost interest in him and their relationship. Now living alone in a decrepit house he has casual weekly sex with an anonymous woman whose name he does not know. At first their relationship is purely physical but he eventually falls in love with her. Wanting to know more about her he follows her across the streets of London to the grey suburbs where she lives. He then follows her to a pub theatre where she works as an actress in the evenings. He learns that her name is Claire and she is married to Andy has a son. Subsequently it is made clear to him that she will not leave her family. They meet for a final time and have sex with an intimacy that has been missing during the illicit sex sessions of their previous encounters.