Synopsis

Conventional, middle-aged Jen goes for her daily walk in the nearby woods and meets Steve, a similar aged straight-talking vagrant. He invites her back to his home, a large cardboard box set amongst a clump of fir trees shortly destined to be felled. Hesitant, but desperately trying to widen her horizons, Jen accepts; and so develops a bond between two people whose backgrounds are widely different.

But there are questions: why does Steve insist that she owns a dog when she insists that she doesn't? Are things really as they seem or has Steve an agenda that Jen knows nothing about...until that is, she looks deep into the corner of the box.

Duration

Characters

(2m, 1f)

• Jen - 50s, conventional, well dressed, polite
• Steve - 40s, cockney, shabbily dressed, eccentric
• Woodcutter - 20s-40s, straight talking, 'I'm just doing my job.'