Mary and Statton's one-night stand at a hotel gets interrupted by a robbery, and the complete strangers are forced to help each other navigate the seedy underbelly of a sleepy Welsh island in order to get back their stolen property.

Sara and her dad, Dave, move to a small village which is haunted by suicides among its young inhabitants. Dave, as the town's new police officer, tries to stop the mysterious chain of suicides.

In the heat of the summer of 1976, drama teacher Vivienne fights sweltering heat and general teenage apathy to put on an end-of-term version of Shakespeare's The Tempest.