Dan and Carla are a couple at a crossroads. Carla wonders if the two of them trapped in a pokey flat is all she can expect from life, while Dan has a chat with his boss.

Dan struggles to focus on finding work and instead gets distracted by the waiter at his local café. Meanwhile, Joy is offloading her emotional and physical baggage on Carla.

As Dan struggles to find work and Carla struggles to contain Joy's anxiety, the cracks forming in their relationship are getting hard to ignore.

It’s the evening of Joy and Kurt’s important dinner. Dan and Carla have drifted further apart than ever, and Maya is getting closer to Carla – is Dan too absorbed in his own crisis to notice?