Mr Wyman is an elderly man whose increasingly unreliable memory has landed him in a geriatric ward. Here he is visited by his daughters Val and Molly, and Molly's husband Harold, and looked after by the ward's two male nurses, Vic and Donald, who are in competition for a promotion. Donald needs the money as he and his girlfriend are trying to buy a house but are having difficulty arranging a mortgage. From the window at which he sits, Mr Wyman can see a wall. He repeatedly pesters Donald with questions about what is on the other side. Donald constructs a fantasy of the future he dreams of with his girlfriend: a house and garden inhabited by a married couple.
Piers Haggard
Director
Alan Bennett
Writer
John Barrett
Mr. Wyman
David Threlfall
Donald
Maureen Lipman
Val
Bernard Gallagher
Harold
David Foxxe
Vic
Jeanne Doree
Alice
Pat Heywood
Molly
Anna Quayle
Pam
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