Angela Deakin's play is about loneliness and how the past is never forgotten. The house at the end of the street is occupied by an old woman. No-one can recall seeing her, or recalling her name. She was referred to by most of her neighbours as it. Helen Broadhurst is in her late seventies. Independent, proud, she realizes she has a problem communicating with people because she has not spoken to anyone in years. Her parents are long dead, her brothers no longer interested in her; Helen starts to understand, too late, the damage that has been done.She never saw herself as a solitary person. What hurt her the most was that children called her dumb cluck. She detested that word.  Most afternoons, she sits down staring at the flowers on the fading wallpaper in the living-room. It is then that she remembers the only companion she had in her life: Alison, her childhood friend. Alison died when she was eight-years-old. As Helen stares at the flowers, she starts to see the faces of people she once knew. "No-one is ever lonely" Alison told her on the day she died. Helen kept the apple seed Alison gave her. Can Helen reconcile herself to her predicament as the past threatens to destroy her.